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You can dance around that all you want, but, like the historical event itself, what happened is what happened. |
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And that's why nobody takes you seriously. (Plus, once again, you're simply lying about what I've said.) |
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Says the guy who was ingorant of the historical example of what happens when you do away with coypright. |
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If by "distribute his own books" you mean "set up his own web site, and hope that somebody will eventually notice it," sure. But nobody has gotten rich (or made a living) distributing their own books that way. The only way to have any reasonable hope of having a significant audience is to distribute through a major portal site, like Amazon. Who will cease to exist if they can't make money from it.
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How is that in any way relevant to the vast majority of books publishing, which is fiction for recreational reading? Do you propose some system by which you can force someone to do "mandatory excercises" when they buy a trashy romance novel? If not, then maybe you could try to come up with something relevant to the real world.
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Which does not describe anyone here, any more than "vile theiving scum who takes whatever they want without paying for it" describes you. It's an insult, pure namecalling, and nothing more. At least be man enough to admit it.
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And, of course, I can't prove that copyright collapse would have the opposite effect on volumes today that it did in 1789. But there is evidence, as in one or two threads on this very board, in which it was suggested that authors need to charge low prices and issue several books a year. Here's the recent trend line for my own country, the US: Quote:
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Well, Taustin, old mate, you have finally convinced me, from now on I will drop to my knees twice daily and give thanks to the copyright gods.
And I will do my best on this forum to support your views. I now regard you as my guru, so like your good self I will restrict myself to calm, polite, well-reasoned, properly substantiated arguments, and I will absolutely abstain from vulgar insults and puerile name-calling. And I hope you will not take it amiss if, in fighting the good fight, I actually quote some of your own highly convincing recent posts in this and a couple of contemporaneous threads, such as: You're a funny guy. Really. Hysterical. a freakish outlier vile theiving scum who takes whatever they want without paying for it If you don't keep your promise, people …. might even consider you dishonest. I explained that because you seem a little fuzzy on the concept. criminal fraud using words in different ways than most of the english speaking world excuses to not pay for stuff other people created a very not safe for work comic You want stuff you can't afford, so you try to justify taking it without paying for it. If you actually believe what you're spouting. people like you are irrelevant to matters of public policy frankly, a stupid argument no idea what you're jibbering about I'd prefer you did it in your closet, rather than here I will laugh at you you are a liar and a fraud Which word do you not understand? anarchistic nonsense In all seriousness, dude, how old are you? You sound like a 14 year old who just discovered Ayn Rand[1] or something. Have you ever held down a job and supported yourself without help from your parents? a hypocrite of the vilest sort, expecting from society what you refuse to give it in return. sovergisn citizen loons the only thing he has ever managed to shoot is his own foot Not …. got the skill or the balls to try what he's talking about Hyporcisy, or psychosis the dark, dusty, cobweb covered recesses of what passes for his mind What kind of drugs are you on? Seriously, man, you smoke too much of it. no clue what he's talking about It's inconceivable to me that he's ever made more than minimum wage, if he's ever held down a job at all just clueless, as usual, a hazard to the internet at large. Keep the faith, brother. |
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I'm having a hard time finding good statistics on this, but the following gives some idea: [Bestselling books of 2011: the top 100 listed Certainly fiction for recreational reading is the biggest single category, but when you add up all the small categories, they come to more. Here is a link on that, found in my last link: http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data...s/type-of-book |
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But I warn you, you better not be coming the raw prawn, or else I'll get my new guru taustin on to you, and he'll give you what for! Taustin, just keep an eye on this bloke for us, will you? |
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There are many free e-books to get, I got this list: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Free_eBooks
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