I'm sorry if my attitude towards book publishing seems cavalier. I
think I just didn't explain myself well enough for you to understand
my position.
If you believe that Evola, or any other particular author, is a
valuable thing for people to read -- that certain books have the
possibility to transform the world we live in if their ideas could be
widely disseminated and appreciated -- then I believe it is of utmost
importance to make those texts readily available. Individual profit
should be a wholly secondary consideration. You talk of publishing
more Evola books. Well, I have been reading in the White Nationalist
genre for two years now, and it wasn't until a couple of weeks ago
that I even *heard* the name Evola. Telling someone that
such-and-such an author is a great read, and they should really check
him out, is one thing. Getting that person to actually go out and
purchase the book is quite another. Enthusiasm for a suggestion is
typically short-lived. It passes, is forgotten. The book never makes
it into the reader's hands. But if the text can be obtained
immediately, and you one dive right in and start to see what it's
about, then you have a convert.
I'm sorry, but I just don't have any sympathy for people who want to
monopolize information that is potentially salutary to the world
situation. Julius Evola is dead. He isn't getting any more
royalties. Had these authors been able to see the advent of the
internet, I doubt very much that many of them would have objected to
the free dissemination of their books and articles. The people who
object are publishers, and what they object to is the loss of a
certain small profit margin in the short-term. But if they'd think a
little more about it, they'd see that they stand to make more money in
the long run if Evola himself were to become more common currency.
Which will not happen if his works are hoarded. Unknown and unread
except by those "in the know."
We need more people in the know. Ideas need to reach the people who
might respond to them. I put books online for free. I don't charge
anybody for the labor of proofing and formatting them. For the cost
of maintaining an internet site. It's all free. If people just
started acting that way, things really would be all free.
Think about it. How many people are involved when you go to pay your
electricity bill? You put a check in an envelope and the envelope in
the mailbox, and some guy comes and picks it up and takes it to the
post office. Where it's sorted and routed to some other guy, who
takes it to the utility company. Where it's opened, and the check is
examined, and stamped, and a little entry is made in a computer, and
the check put in another envelope, to be delivered to the bank where
the customer has his account. There the check is examined again, and
another entry is made by another person in another computer ... and so
on and so forth. We're a nation of bookkeepers. Most people spend
their days figuring out how much other people owe them. Literally.
It's not, in any sense of the word, productive. In reality, there's
like this one guy down at the power station who monitors the machines
that keep my lights on. All these other people are just taking up space.