[LINK] Radiohead: Artists often screwed by digital downloads

[Michael Still]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 03:44 PM 6/01/2008, Roger Clarke wrote:
>> [Lots of us have warned for years that public payment morality was
>> being seriously undermined, and hence that an increasing proportion of
>> consumers would appropriate content.  Now the alienation of artists is
>> going to extremes, at the same time as alternative channels to market
>> are maturing.  Business historians may come to write case studies of
>> the collapse of a vast industry 1980-2020.]
> 
> Keep an eye on publishing, too. It's a mess of uninformed 'middle' 'men'
> interns screening works or having to go through layer upon layer to get
> a decision to sign an author/work after the author has found an agent
> willing to take on the author/work to begin with.
> 
> Here in Australia, it's pretty bad in that way. There aren't enough agents.

That might be true for literature, but for technical publishing its
quite common to have a relationship directly with a publisher and not
use an agent at all. Then again, its rare for technical books to pay out
their (very small) royalty advances.

Mikal