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Good points, HarryT.
But the question remains. Most people in the forum here are (rightfully) talking about the harm that piracy does to the creators of various works and not to the publisher/record company/software firm that distributes them.
The costs of peer review and research make quality textbooks and non-fiction more expensive than other genres to be sure, but does it bring you, the author, a bigger check than if you had written a romance novel? Probably not.
I mean, do you really think that 175 dollars is a fair price for an etextbook? (A question for another thread, perhaps)
My point here is really that I'd love to see a system that protects intellectual property, benefits the authors, and protects the quality of the work. Is that possible?
I'm imagining a Radiohead kind of system, I guess. One in which you pay what you can and do so directly to the creator of the work you buy. Seems to be the perfect model for ebooks. But maybe it's naive.
I'll be publishing my first non-fiction work next year and I'm terribly interested in these kinds of questions...
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