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Originally Posted by Xanthe
.Rare is the person who is chuckling evilly and deliberately putting up a book by an author for the sole purpose of decreasing his/her monetary sales. In fact, there is only one author that I know of for whom that happened (and no, I didn't put any of his/her books up on the Dark Net  ). I have to say I chuckled when I saw it, but then the joke was on me because I started to see the "I never heard about that author before - I really liked that book" remarks and I knew that new fans had been created. |
And there I thought that most people knew Tony Blair ad nauseam even before he started to publish books.
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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
Another thing is that in many countries (not the US, though), there are mechanisms that do pay authors for library loans, after a fashion. (In Germany per loan 3-4 cents are paid to an organisation which also gets fees for e.g. each scanner or photocopier sold. They pay their own overhead, and pay out the rest of the money to authors registered with them.)
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Right. Every time I save my holiday photos to DVD I am kindly requested to pay money to the content industry. My sense of pity for the hardships supposedly endured by the content industry is very limited.