[lbo-talk] Lefty library of pdfs

[C W Sedley]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:04 PM, andie_nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Apparently Bill B and chuck think that writers _should_ work for nothing. I am flabbergasted. I presume that they would support busting the teacher's strike here to bring down wages to their true value instead of permitting teachers to exercise monopoly power.

I'm actually proposing that ebook authors and public teachers be paid
in the same way: ebooks become free *at the point of delivery*, and
writers be paid out of surplus value that gets expropriated elsewhere.
Then they can strike for higher writer's wages (or universal benefits
or whatever).

Well, I'm really only proposing the second part, because ebooks are
already free for those who know how to look for them. But I think that
in the next few years it will become necessary to formalise this
arrangement, otherwise publishing will only be done by wings of
capital that use it for ideological purposes.

Cheers

CWS