Digital technology has completely changed our practices. This has presented some advantages, such as allowing us, as self-employed workers, to communicate more quickly, and it has made it much easier for us to create at various stages. However, digital technology has also created uncertainty. The great difficulty, indeed, is to adapt to the new developments we are experiencing on a daily basis at an accelerated pace.
An example I can give is the creation of an illustration for the cover of a novel. The remuneration for this type of contract has always been $800 to $1,000; there is a licence for the book. When digital technology arrived, books began to be published in PDF or other electronic formats, without changing the remuneration for the book cover. No additional licences were granted, on the grounds that, according to the publishers, the market for these new formats was in its infancy and so there was no need to change the remuneration arrangements. However, in recent years, we've seen that sales of books in digital format can be good and, so, the focus needs to be adjusted.