/lit/ - Literature

Okay so i read that when an author gets published they get a lump sum of cash up front, say 10,000, and once book sales surpass 10,000 the author then gets a percentage of every sale there on out. Now do bookstores actually buy the book from the publisher and then simply resale for higher or are they selling for the publisher?
If I steal a book from a bookstore, does that still in a sense support the author as the bookstore will have to buy another copy to replace it? Or is that not how it works.
When I was younger and too poor to buy books, I would steal them instead, my local library wasn't that big and didn't have much I wanted to read, it was especially infuriating when they had parts of a series but not the whole thing, and so I kind of gotten into the habit of stealing books. It started as just a thing I would do when the bookstore staff were rude to me (granted I look like a hoodlum, but I always bought stuff from teh cafe's so I was supporting their shitty business) but in enough time the rush I got from stealing was enough that I started to do it indiscriminately.
Anyways while I don't care much for bookstore chains, I do care about the authors, I probably stole over 1000 dollars worth of books in my life and I wonder if the authors still got something out of it or if I've kinda dicked them as well.

>>20166541
>Dockson reluctantly agreed to invite the Smoker. Although the man was hard to work with, he was good enough for the job, at least according to Kelsier.

I'm not a writer, but wouldn't it be better to shorten it like this? like, is that wall of dialogue really necessary?

1. I fall in love too easily.

1.1. Never with the right person.

1.1.1. This time it's a woman struggling with her deadend relationship with a psychotic retard who has more tattoos than digits, more children than IQ points.

1.1.1.1. The tattoos are distasteful.

1.1.1.2. The children are all with other women.

2. I spent the last six weeks getting outrageously high pretty much everyday and had a terrifying break with reality where I started harming myself. I'm going clean now. Is this normal (i.e.: this reaction to an extended bender), or am I one of those people for whom psychoactive substances induce, like, schizophrenia?

2.1. It was weed.

2.1.1. Various strains, mostly consumed via digestion.

>>18488950
Knowledge is knowing the definition of niggardly, wisdom is knowing not to use it.

>>18216499
you dont need a book
Read: http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html
Anything past this guide is a motivation/determination problem, in which case you should seek counseling or medication.

As my college nutrition professor once said "there are no great diets, the only good ones are ones you can stick to". If you must choose a plan, use one you think you can stick to.

>>17927047
By my definition of bad (something to be avoided), and my definitions of suffering (something that causes pain), and that my argument is supposed to apply to most humans in most situations, yes suffering is bad because humans tend to avoid painful things in most situations. This should be intuitive. As to if people SHOULD avoid suffering, in my post I answered this by claiming that suffering is good if it is overcome.

>>17358148
dont touch ur pp

>>17251277
>all morality is derived from the bible
>bible was compiled after Jesus died
>Jesus did not have access to the full bible as you would define it

Your definition of morality is obviously a semantical hazard to win hopeless arguments against people who derive morality from somewhere else. I can't stop you from defining morality in this way, but I can point out that this is a reductive way of thinking and another lame reframing of a word that proves nothing and lowers overall dialogue.

Nice bait