Аннотация: The Sketch about a wonderful Book Festival
The Sketch about a wonderful Book Festival
Yesterday, June 8, 2019, a program about the wonderful book festival took place on the radio. The festival lasted for several days.
With delight, the radio presenter announced a lot of books on different topics, a significant number of visitors.
Following this solemn beginning, the radio presenter moved on to the interview.
The actor with considerable experience told about the performances in performances on works by Alexander Pushkin. Performances are "remarkable" ("wonderful"), music - is "remarkable", actors - are "remarkable".
In the view of "ordinary" people actors live in the special world. Stylistics of a speech of the experienced actor - natural. It was interesting to listen - if not to an interview, then a supply manner.
As for a book festival with which the broadcast began, this festival slightly opened one of secrets.
To me on e-mail letters regularly came and come with offers (in a clear variant and the disguised form) to publish at own expense own works.
Earlier also offers from Internet platforms came. You can lie, like literary officers, in a lodge by the sea in the far provincial settlement and shoot with the ancient pistols on flies, and the Internet platform will sell your books and through some periods of time to regularly supply you with pleasant money.
The motive of these letters was clear to me.
The author pays money... Or he transfers (to someone) copyright - allows to sell the works...
There is some money turnover. Small or big - the author or knows about it precisely (when he transferred the exact amount of money), or can only guess - when his works they sell (somewhere to someone)...
Further - it is clear...
But the phenomenon of "festival" slightly opened one more coulisse at puppet theater from the fairy tale "Gold Key" (Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy - after work by Carlo Collodi).
The "ordinary", "average" author will not pay big money for the edition of own books.
The sum of monetary receipts from sale of his books on the Internet platform - ... Here - who - as wants. Who wants to take figures which are provided by the Internet platform as a basis - please ... Who wants to consider this figure unknown or hypothetical - is also not prohibited by the law ...
But there is both big money and and big drums (which big people and their assistants beat).
I open the information message about one of book festivals (the icon "The fables by Krylov" hangs on the web page). The festival passes during several days and with enormous scope.
The sum of costs of its carrying out is not especially stuck out. I personally did not find it.
But there is indirect information. Concerning winners of one of literary awards it is said: "They will win monetary prizes, and their works will be published on the website of an award and published by the separate collection in one of the leading publishing houses".
Good, informative phrase if to ponder. And "publication on the website" ... And the edition the separate collection - without instruction, what circulation and for what money (it is clear that the edition of the collection costs money) ... We will not go deep into a subject of "publishing houses" ... A huge, independent theme ...
Generally - a money turns, and, on all signs, not small.
But for a support of "big money" the corresponding surroundings, decoratios are necessary. And a huge number of publications (a significant number of which were carried out for the money of the authors themselves) - this is not an excellent information surroundings, decoratios?
The "ordinary" citizen, the "ordinary" reader, the "ordinary" visitor of a book festival - he from where learns for whose money the book is published?...
He from school got used to think that books are published by publishers (publishing houses) that further they are bought by readers that the money received from sales covers expenses on the edition of books, and the remained money (if not to make very detailed reasonings) is shared [ is divided] between authors and publishing houses.
The "ordinary" visitor of a book festival looks at abundance of books and freezes his heart - "Ah! How nice! As it is healthy! The Russial [Russia-located] literature is very developed!".
So, an ordinary visitor to the book festival has all the chances to be in the usual role for him - as the person who was a little misled ...
However, book festivals are mostly attended by people who have not yet been completely robbed. They, in the majority, have some real estate objects (residents of the capital, guests of the city...). And if they have a something, then they, we can assume, something are paying to the budget in the form of taxes...
Thus, along with their admiration at a festival there is an expenditure of tax means which is difficult controlled by taxpayers - on "rubbing of eyeglasses" concerning development of the Russial [Russia-located] literature ...
"In the Land of Fools there is a magic field - called "Field of Miracles"... In this field, dig a hole, say three times: "Krex, fex, PEX", put in a hole of gold coins, fill with earth, sprinkle with salt, water properly and go to sleep. The next morning a small tree will grow out of the hole, gold coins will hang on it instead of leaves. (...)
Pinocchio, following the instructions, buried the remaining four gold coins, poured water, sprinkled with salt, read the spell "Kreks, feakes, PEX!" and sat down to wait for the money tree to grow...
Seizing the moment, the Fox Alice and Cat Basilio took possession of gold coins..." (Wikipedia. "Golden key.)"
June 9, 2019 01:44
Translation from Russian into English: June 9, 2019 02:59.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Скетч о замечательном книжном фестивале".