Thursday, September 9, 2021

Now it's over I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want

A thought crosses my mind from time to time about what I'll do about my book accounts before I die. I keep switching between leaving them there and shutting it all down and making them inaccessible to others, they can just become out of print, it happens. Except Amazon's ability to allow third parties to continue selling hard copies so their listings will never go away. Without anyone owning the rights to this shit, a lot of self-pubbed books will probably land in some kind of limbo until the 50 years after death of the creator (depending if Disney genuinely give up trying to extend this, I think they may have lost their last effort). Even then, you're not going to get access to their specific Amazon accounts unless someone has authority. So do I give people that access or do I just tap out of the game? Smashwords could stay there, I don't know if some kind of inactivity clause exists that they can shut down accounts that haven't been accessed, but I can't find any clauses. I'm basing all this on me having time before I die to do this, that I don't have a plan of action for a sudden death, that I didn't bring it up in my will even though I probably should have, I guess this just all becomes part of the infinite archive on the internet. My messages float in their bottles on the ether until the end of the world. That would be okay, I guess. The highly unlikely event of some filmmaker finding my work and wanting to option it despite the fact it never made any money, they wouldn't be able to reach me and if my family was contacted, I don't think they'd just agree to them taking it. But then there's public domain clauses, and maybe the time will have come and they can do whatever they like with it. Why should I care? I'll be dead.

But my point is, having read a Britney Spears post with a quote from Sophia Loren stating the fountain of youth exists within ourselves, and as an extension, through what we create, I have achieved abstract immortality. I'm supposed to be dead to a reader. I don't care about it. I don't want it to cause a headache for whomever outlives me.

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