If you are a writer you also might have written a book. Writing a book takes often more than a year. You like to share the content of that book and thus you have to publish it but that is another big effort and at a high cost. Not only because many people suffer from degeneration and hardly can read anymore but mainly because of the publisher and distributor who wants to profit from your effort and ideas.
In order to get €1 per sold book the market price often needs to be €25. €24 is for the publisher, printer and distributor. Mainly the distributors asks a high price for their automatized distribution network but they have not paid any effort in your book. They only put it on their website against a huge price as they have a monopoly position. The following who obtains a big share is the printer but if he does not a proper job the book will not be readable. Both exploit the creator, the writer. In a more equal share they (mainly the distributors) should lower their profit margins as they hardly put any effort to sell your book other than put it on their website and become paid authomatically.
The author has to provide a lot of content, has to pay an editor, has to writ a press note in an attempt to become noticed by the media, has to go to bookstores, give lectures and all kinds of other marketing skills. This is even when you have found a publisher.
In our present society it is not about if you have written a good book with interesting content that might contribute to enrich many lives, no it is all about the business model. Which is if you are well known, and if the publisher, printer and distributor can make a huge profit. In other words it is about greed. And this greed is the pitfall. Notice that f.e. That the CEO of Amazon is one of the most ridge persons in the whole world, because he has become paid by all citizens in the world. It is the pyramid system explained in the former article at the bottom.
The question is where do you stand and what is your choice? Where is economic integrity? How are you and many others under this economic inequality? How well founded are you? Belongs this abuse to your life theme? Do we want to continue this ancient Egyptian (religion) pyramid in the future? Or do we want to become a more integer society where we share what we have to offer and get an equal share of something else in return?
Pauline Laumans
Holistic therapist and Life coach
