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Originally Posted by jackdavid
I strongly feel that the next wave will be free digital media that users "pay" what they feel it's worth. This is certainly an option. Instead of trying to protect digital media (which is akin to squeezing sand with your fingers), give it away and trust the consumer will donate something. I'm sure people will be perfectly happy to pay the author something.
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Is that the way that you work in your profession as a lawyer? ie give away your professional expertise and trust that the client will donate something? No? That's odd. After all, won't people be perfectly happy to pay you something? Your "product" - advice - is an "intangible" as an eBook, and yet I'm guessing that you charge a fixed price for it. Why do you believe that authors should not be able to do likewise?
Don't you see the fundamental dichotomy between what you're saying and what you're doing? You are saying that "most people will be perfectly happy to pay the author something" and yet you yourself are not doing so. Does that "rule" apply only to other people and not to you?