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Australians' love of cheap books is driving independent bookstores and writers out of business. These prominent authors believe there is a simple solution.

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[–] murtaza64@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

you're right, it's definitely easier to market and push a high budget movie or game and make a ton of money off of it. I guess I was thinking of total labor involved in publishing a book vs a movie without considering whether it will actually be read/watched