There has been a great emphasis in this room on digital property, but e-books have levelled off. E-books are not becoming the be-all and end-all. Many people are returning to print.
In the information given by Ms. Romaniuk about acquisitions by libraries, I think she was not including course packs. She was talking about subscriptions to journals and so on, many of which are written by tenured professors who are getting tenured salaries. Independent writers like me are not. We rely on really cobbling together strings of income that include, ideally, being paid for writing.
None of us went into this to get rich. I had no dollar signs in my eyes that I was going to become J. K. Rowling. We do it because we love it. We do it because it's a call. We would appreciate compensation for reproduction of a work, which existed before the educational sector unilaterally reinterpreted—illegally, as the court has now ruled— what those tariffs should be.