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Old 09-18-2012, 08:43 PM   #47
SteveEisenberg
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Or did they not create because they did not have enough to eat??
No, it was a money issue:

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François-André Godefroy, a bookseller, wrote to the office in September testifying that "our sales are nearly dead."[113] In November, François Gueffier, one of the wealthiest printers of the Paris Book Guild, decried "the decimation of the industry."
So there is something to what taustin wrote about the French Revolution. However, I'll agree with you to the point of saying that in modern affluent countries, there are a lot of authors who will continue to write despite little chance of being paid. They won't be writing the kind of heavily researched books I tend to like to read, but, if copyright dies, there will be no shortage of new eBooks.

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Everything is moving along as it should.
You mean this, right?

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