BedrockBrendan
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Most of the anti-OBS arguments I'm seeing wrt to content moderation boil down to "It's inconvenient for me to find alternate methods of advertising, sales and distribution, so I expect OBS to provide me with unconditional access to their platform and resources because reasons".
This isn't what people are saying. It is obviously disputed territory. Some people think finding arrangements elsewhere or doing a kickstarter are more viable. Saying you disagree is fine (Rob just pointed to an alternative point of view of mine, without being dismissive of my view). This is a complicated topic and people can disagree about it without folks having to have bad motivations driving those disagreements. Personally I think I would have very hard time putting out books if I wasn't on OBS. And it is also a question I'd rather not risking have answered if I can avoid it, because like I said before, the revenue streams here are tight. There isn't a lot of room for me to experiment with alternatives and know that is going to work out okay for me financially, or that I will still be able to make books on the other side of it.
And again, it is debatable territory. Different publishers are going to have different takes. I never got on the kickstarter thing, so that is an area I can't really weigh in (though obviously at a certain point I considered it and decided that is not how I want to do publishing).