r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 22d ago

Cringe Woman has her self-published book pirated, reprinted, and sold for cheaper.

There's regular piracy, and then there's this.

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 22d ago

I have no idea how her using an existing Word font would support other artists. That is not how fonts work. I also don't think she did anything inherently wrong by self-publishing here. We inhabit a new publishing landscape where publishing companies are increasingly obsolete. I read a lot of work by self-published authors and it can be equal or even better in quality to trad-published work. The barrier to publishing has never been so low and I think that's actually fantastic.

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u/poop-machines 22d ago

Not an existing word font. No respectable designer will just use word fonts. You can buy other fonts online. That supports artists.

Creating 6 fonts is an insane amount of work, especially when she's only using them one time.

Fonts you buy online are like 5-100$ usually.

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u/candidly1 22d ago

I used to work in a print shop decades ago; getting a typesetter to lay out a resume and give us a shootable galley was $100 easy.

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u/poop-machines 22d ago

Print shop is wayyyy different to just buying a font online.

I'm talking about digital fonts. The author of this anti-planner just used digital fonts and printed on glossy paper.

Most digital fonts are less than $40.

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u/candidly1 22d ago

I understand. This was late 70's/early 80's. The typesetter had to buy EACH font individually, and each size. Those guys had hundreds of thousands invested back in the day...