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Originally Posted by ficbot
No it doesn't. The reader can get the book for free from the library. Or borrow it from their mother. Or sample the first few pages and decide to buy another book instead. If the reader picking up (however metaphorically) the book does not result in a sale for the author, there is a reason that browsing customer was not converted into a paying customer, and it's the author's job to convert them. There are no guarantees at all that someone who writes a book will get any profit at all, unless they do it for hire. It's just not that kind of business, and the author 'deserving' money has nothing to do with it. Some authors make a lot of money. Some authors make less money. From strictly a business standpoint, it is a commission sales job.
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If you have the temerity to download an illegal copy of a book that is for sale AND you read that book - you should pay the author some money. There is no wiggle room here. There's no argument for "commission." I work for commission - the entire company is completely commission driven. When we get a contract for a customer we get paid. Period. The customer can't come back and say, "Well, you might not have gotten paid anyway so we won't pay you." The customer can't claim that they "didn't care for the contract that much." We fulfilled our end of the agreement, we get paid. THAT is commission.
The point here is that you are already converted. You picked up the book and you read it. There's no need to spend the time concocting massively unlikely situations to explain why you decided to not to pay for the book. You don't have to lie to kick it.
