If you love an author or their ideas, please buying their fucking books. I have friends who are published authors. And let me tell you, authors get paid next to nothing for their labor. Unless they’re very famous. This is not a “Metallica hates pirating and demands more money” situation.
Most Occult/New Age/Religious works only sell a few thousand copies - and that’s if you’re lucky. According to a report put forth by Publisher’s Weekly in 2006, the average book only sells about 3000 copies. Ever. So let’s say you are an author living off royalties. If your book sells 3000 copies and the book retails at about $20.00, you will receive approximately $6000 in royalties for the book in your lifetime. And that’s if it actually sells 3000 copies and you are actually given the 10% by the publisher.
I know $6000 may sound like a lot of money (especially if you’re broke right now), but consider how many many hours it takes to write a book. The author is usually getting paid less than minimum wage.
So if you want there to be better books on witchcraft, please fucking buy them. Stop circulating masterposts of PDFs and actually go out there and throw some money at the writers you pretend to appreciate.
If the author is dead and the book is out-of-print and nobody is profiting from it - fine, whatever (by which I mean, I’m not a lawyer and that’s probably still illegal but I don’t morally object). But a lot of the posts I see are filled with books written by authors who are currently living and their books are widely available. Which is bullshit.
Oh. And this also goes for academics. If you must seek out a copy of a historic grimoire as edited by a certain favorite scholar - please pay that dude some fucking money.
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