The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.

  • -- Graham Swift 格拉汉姆·史威夫特

目前,电子书似乎确实威胁到了作家的生计,因为作家以电子书的形式获得报酬的方式还悬而未决。

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Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

听着,你是来见我的,我不能继续下去,直到我的经纪人来了,他在等着付钱,所以给我一些钱,我好安排一下,然后你就能拿到你的演出了。

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.

嗯,至少到目前为止,我自己的想法总是比其他作家的想法更重要。只要这口井不干涸,我想情况就会是这样。

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

这叫做支付丹麦盾;但是我们已经一次又一次地证明了,一旦你把丹麦人的钱付给他,你就永远摆脱不了丹麦人。

I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.

我喜欢鼓励有才华的年轻作家尝试帮助他们出版,等等,但仅此而已。这是我能做的最好的了。