Thread: On the table: DRM trumps fair dealing (Canada)
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Old 06-06-2010, 05:31 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Many of the greatest writers in history have "written for money": those dreadful hack writers Shakespeare and Dickens, to name but two. You make it sound as if there's something wrong with writers producing work that readers will want to read!
But how many of them started out writing because they saw it as a way of making money? And how do their "written for money" books compare to their earlier ones?
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