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Old 02-01-2011, 05:06 PM   #207
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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph View Post
Surely I am. If you want to read that 150K words, that is. Otherwise - if you find it so easy and worthless - go do it yourself and read your own work. Stop acting like you got nothing out of it. That's just absurd. You got your entertainment.

I don't prescribe to the "every download equals a lost sale" theory, but if you read it you got something out of it.
That's a slightly different point from the one I was responding to - which was that it was the act of writing that should be paid for. Now you have moved on to argue that if I want to read something written by an author I should have to pay for that. But my point is that if I did have to pay for some of this stuff then I wouldn't read it, it's only because occasionally I find I can read it without paying for it that means that I do read it. It's a bit like remaindered book shops. The author got nothing out of books sold to a remaindered bookshop but I could buy books cheap and try an author I knew nothing about. In fact I "discovered" Brian Moore, Barbara Pym and Anne Tyler by buying remaindered books very cheap. Now I am happy to buy their books.
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