Trensletter #26 - Don't but my book 📖⏰
Don't buy my book... borrow it!As the Black Friday frenzy fades and the Montreal Book Fair has just ended, I want to address an essential reflection. What kind of author would I be if I encouraged you to buy compulsively, when my message advocates thoughtful buying and sharing? During radio segment episode of Feu Vert, Catherine Perrin illustrated this tension: “Once again, I have just convinced you to buy a book, that of Marie-Michèle Larivée… and a second one!” (translated from french)
This is the paradox of the current system: for a book to be valued by the industry, it must sell en masse, often as an individual object. However, our copyright system is not adapted to the logic of mutualization. It favors possession over sharing, confining knowledge to a market logic.
What if, instead of owning, we learned to share? My book, like others, can live fully in libraries or circulate among readers. Each reading should not depend on a new sale. Sure, the Public Lending Right Program in Canada compensates fiction authors who have their books published in public libraries, but still. I feel we are at a crossroads, much like the music industry has been in recent decades. SignalsI wanted to share other ways of consuming and rethinking books, some interesting signals spotted for you in the last few months: 📗 BOOKS EXCHANGE
📒READ ELSEWHERE
📕CREATE DIFFERENTLY
📘DISTRIBUTE DIFFERENTLY
Coming up...📅 January - April I am very pleased to announce that I am taking over the helm for a 5th year, teaching the university course MOD2302 - Trend and Lifestyle Analysis, at UQAM. I am therefore looking for trend analysis projects from companies for these future professionals. Would you like to give us a trend research mandate for $0 and in exchange for a maximum of 1 hour per week for 10 weeks?
À bientôt |
Marie-Michele Larivée
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N’achète pas mon livre… emprunte-le ! Alors que la frénésie du Black Friday s’estompe et que le Salon du livre de Montréal vient de s’achever, je souhaite aborder une réflexion essentielle. Quel genre d’auteure serais-je si je vous incitais à acheter compulsivement, alors que mon message prône l’achat réfléchi et le partage ? À Feu Vert, Catherine Perrin illustrait cette tension : « Encore une fois, je viens de vous convaincre d’acheter un livre, celui de Marie-Michèle Larivée… et un deuxième...