This is an excellent explainer about how the arts works financially using publishing as the exemplar, and a perfect illustration of why the arts (and everyone!) needs universal basic income.
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Oisín McGann
Let me tell you about the weird business that delivers art into our lives, and the impact it has on the long-term careers of artists. This is a thread prompted by yet another article on authors' incomes, and the inevitable reactions from the 'people-would-pay-if-it-was-worth-it-to-them' brigade. 1/
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