Wait a moment !
What I want - as the author - are ALL rights !
I want to have TOTAL CONTROL over my work !
Which means that I don't want a company (a publisher) to do what they want with my work.
If I take a look at the music industry and considr how few money the actual producers ( I mean individuals) of a song get (I think it was about 9 % ) , then I feel ashamed. And even worse : the music industry wants to even lower that rate !
I belive that originators of work deserve a lot of more money for their "year long research", and not only a few per cent of the actual price (how it's sold, actually).
As long as I have to give up almost all of my rights to a company in order to publish anything at all ("publish or perish" with a cynical twist), then I won't do it.
What's even worse is that publishers have a monopoly on Knowledge - I mean in scientific works. Any scientific researcher must frely on knowlefge - and threfore publishers of scientific books can dictat their prices. If someone can't afford it - bad luck. Lack of knowledge.
I've been studying Geology for a while. And all I can say that scientific books needed by the studends *are* expensive.
Even the person who originally had written the scientific book can be forbidden to copy his own work, at least in theory.
And what is when scientific books simply "get out of print" ? Another problem. Still you are not allowed to copy them (the same problm with the so-called "abandonware"), but you also don't get the scientific knowledge that's buried in these out-of-print-books.
That's what buggers me.
Alrik.
