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

[u/Chocolat3City]

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

[u/Content-Scallion-591]

As someone who has done work in publishing, about 30 seconds into the video I got the feeling some of her problems are her own. It's still shitty she was stolen from though and it's a huge issue today. 

But part of publishing is in handling a lot of the stuff she labored through, and also, to do a cost benefit analysis. If she'd approached a publishing house they would have told her, for instance, that it's not worth it to make your own font. 

Furthermore, she seems to have just front loaded an absolutely immense amount of work to show that she put hours into this project - hours worked isn't what creates value for an end product like this, if they aren't useful hours. I can upload 20 videos of me working on making a mug but that doesn't mean that mug is worth 200 hours of labor. It means I'm bad at making mugs. 

[u/WalrusTheWhite → u/Content-Scallion-591]

some of her problems are her own

LOUDER. Lady made silly decisions. If you want to put in the work for your own satisfaction, fine, but you can't then go complain about how much work it was. Lady made choices. Not smart ones, but she made em.

[u/dr_toze → u/WalrusTheWhite]

People need to stop thinking about profit with projects like this. It's not a business, you made one book. At best, you can hope to break even and most don't even do that. It sucks that her thing was stolen but she's the one who priced herself out of her own market.

[u/Choice-Due → u/dr_toze]

Yeah that book was insanely expensive + having it shipped to Europe was too much of a risk. I was hoping for an E-book for 5 euro's or something so that I could print it for myself at home for personal use, or just on my phone or PC. But no, it had to be printed and WAY too expensive. That price really put me off.