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Self Publishing: What's An Artist Worth?
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<blockquote data-quote="Halivar" data-source="post: 7694965" data-attributes="member: 9327"><p>I don't know. While I agree that artists should not be cheated (and they are, by people that have the money and should know better), there are the exigencies that come with being a poor (sometimes literally!) self-pub trying to scrape together the best product you can offer for $2 on DTRPG.com. I remember the lively Twitter debate you had last week (with Sly Flourish I think?) and tended to side more with the folks saying that underpaid artists and low-cost self-pubs are really kind of in the same boat. Underpaid artists are the only kind of artists many underpaid (underearning?) self-pubs can afford.</p><p></p><p>Here on EnWorld I've seen artists pleading for work, and publishers unable to pay them more than a pittance. I don't think anyone's actively trying to screw anyone over; it's just a really crappy market to try to make money in. If the lesson we give self-pubs is, "ethically, you should not use art at all" rather than using an artist desperate for commissions of any sort, then I don't know that we have served anyone. I certainly don't see how we have served the starving artist. We may have done well by the higher-tier, established artists by not polluting the market; I don't know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Halivar, post: 7694965, member: 9327"] I don't know. While I agree that artists should not be cheated (and they are, by people that have the money and should know better), there are the exigencies that come with being a poor (sometimes literally!) self-pub trying to scrape together the best product you can offer for $2 on DTRPG.com. I remember the lively Twitter debate you had last week (with Sly Flourish I think?) and tended to side more with the folks saying that underpaid artists and low-cost self-pubs are really kind of in the same boat. Underpaid artists are the only kind of artists many underpaid (underearning?) self-pubs can afford. Here on EnWorld I've seen artists pleading for work, and publishers unable to pay them more than a pittance. I don't think anyone's actively trying to screw anyone over; it's just a really crappy market to try to make money in. If the lesson we give self-pubs is, "ethically, you should not use art at all" rather than using an artist desperate for commissions of any sort, then I don't know that we have served anyone. I certainly don't see how we have served the starving artist. We may have done well by the higher-tier, established artists by not polluting the market; I don't know. [/QUOTE]
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