Philip Pullman calls for authors to get fairer share of publisher profits | Books | The Guardian

Speaking in his capacity as president of the Society of Authors, the His Dark Materials author hit out at the fact that while profit margins in publishing are rising, the money authors are paid is going down.

"To allow corporate profits to be so high at a time when author earnings are markedly falling is, apart from anything else, shockingly bad husbandry. It's perfectly possible to make a good profit and pay a fair return to all of those on whose work, after all, everything else depends. But that's not happening at the moment," said Pullman. "I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with; but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the ecology of the book world. It's damaging, and it should change."