08-10-2012, 06:38 PM | #61 | |
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Never bought a used book? Never used a library??? Never read a book/newspaper/magazine that another person read before? P.S. Would you please be so kind as to 'compensate' me after reading this post. P.P.S Re-reading your definition of piracy: is it ok not to compensate authors for books you read but did not enjoy? |
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08-10-2012, 10:32 PM | #62 | |
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08-10-2012, 10:41 PM | #63 | |
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What I am mostly saying is that our definition of textual piracy is archaic. What kind of compensation per post are you looking for, a share of the ad revenue from this site based on number of thread views? I mean, what is a forum but a non fictional narrative? If I was advocating piracy, which I cannot do since piracy does not exist, I might say that it would be ok to not compensate an author for reading a book that you did not enjoy, although the deeper question to you would be why were you reading a book that you did not enjoy? I have picked up and almost immediately put down thousands of books. I have picked up and taken a slightly longer time to put down thousands more, should I have been compensating the authors of both text sets? Or neither? ... |
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08-11-2012, 12:16 AM | #64 | |
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08-11-2012, 01:15 AM | #65 | |
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08-11-2012, 07:57 AM | #68 |
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I don't know the technical challenge of doing this, but allowing authors to voluntarily opt in to Lendink might save you the hassle of idiot authors who don't know the difference between "its" and "it's" and are just fine using "its'." Many authors like me want all the readers we can get and understand the terms by which we agree to let Amazon distribute our books.
Please build that site and I am in. I tried to explain to "horrified writers" that lending is legal and that authors voluntarily agree to lend books when they publish with Amazon, and that almost certainly loaning books will expand your sales and not diminish them, but why waste breath? If they don't want to loan, they don't have to publish with Amazon, or they can price lower than $2.99, simple as that. Those authors will be as hopelessly left behind as all the paper-sniffer fetishists. Anyway, this is one of the things that happens when everybody with an Internet connection is a "published author." Whatever. |
08-11-2012, 12:14 PM | #69 |
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All this makes a person wonder if the BPH's did not have a use. These authors might never been picked up by the system and we would not have to deal with them. As least the BPH'S would have been a filter to keep them away from the public.
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08-12-2012, 10:12 AM | #70 |
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All this makes me wonder if the crazed mob is going to find out about the other lending sites, like Lendle, and go after them next?
When will the insanity stop??? |
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