“Taking inflation into account, Canadian writers’ incomes from writing fell 78 percent between 1998 and 2018, with the average writing income dropping to just $9,380 a year.” Rather than succumb to that gloomy truth, writers, publishers, and booksellers have to adapt, and for me that means adopting technologies and stategies the will keep literature in the mainstream. D2W editions like this—by making books more affordable, easier to distribute, and to promote—can help recover lost ground. Literature is too important to a vibrant, healthy society to not try new ways of sharing our stories. By paying the $5 ‘voluntary royalty fee‘ for this online edition of The Mural Gazer or buying a print edition, you are responding to a new approach for compensating a writer…