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Originally Posted by EricDP
Another piece of common sense I don't agree with. Every piece of software on my computer costs me $0. It's extremely high quality and does everything I want. I used to pay through the nose for expensive Microsoft stuff that barely worked, was loaded with restrictions, and required me to pay even more money for regular upgrades I didn't want to stay supported and get security patches I shouldn't need. Go figure.
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You're running open source software? So do I, though not entirely. Most things have quite acceptable open source equivalents, but not everything.
But consider where the open source apps come from. Most of them are created by people working on them in their spare time, and doing other things for a living. Their motivation is some combination of geek cred and scratching an itch because it's a tool they'll use too.
But how do you apply that model to books? A lot of folks write on the side and have a day job, including most published authors. Some folks just like to write and have what they wrote available for others to read, and don't especially care about getting paid for it. Others folks
do, and some people are actually trying to make a
living writing.
How do you advise people trying to make actual money writing to proceed?
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Dennis