{"id":4696,"date":"2020-08-28T12:24:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T16:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WP\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2020-08-28T12:24:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T16:24:36","slug":"writers-your-publications-cant-be-given-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/book\/writers-your-publications-cant-be-given-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers, Your publications can&#8217;t be given away."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-indent: 0px;\"><span style=\"margin-left: -20px; border-style: dashed solid; border-color: red; border-width: 5px; border-radius: 30px; padding: 10px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: -2px; float: left; color: red; font-size: 75px; line-height: 70px; padding-right: 8px; padding-left: 3px; font-family: Georgia; text-shadow: 0px 0px 10px grey;\">C<\/span>an&#8217;t do that! Can&#8217;t publish your writing &#8211; your publications &#8211; and not pay you for it. No. Can&#8217;t do that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"shrinkToFit alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.labourman.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/thief-1466666462.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.labourman.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/thief-1466666462.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>This from The VERGE, June 1, 2020.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px;\">Ever had your published work, published by anyone that did not pay you for it? It&#8217;s no fun and yes, I&#8217;ve had it done to me. My first book was published in Asia and I got <em>nothing<\/em>. And let me tell you it &#8211; is &#8211; no &#8211; fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px;\">I also got an email from someone outside the United States asking if I had a PDF I could send him. Um, let me think &#8211; NO! Don&#8217;t think so because it would have been sold and sent the world over enriching someone, but not me.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Get Paid For Your Work<\/h2>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/6\/1\/21277036\/internet-archive-publishers-lawsuit-open-library-ebook-lending\">Publishers sue Internet Archive over Open Library ebook lending<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t do that! Can&#8217;t publish your writing &#8211; your publications &#8211; and not pay you for it. No. Can&#8217;t do that. This from The VERGE, June 1, 2020. Ever had your published&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,30,72,91,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-ebook","category-publishing-books-ebooks","category-theft-stealing","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}