[mr ploppy]

Originally Posted by elcreative

and I have looked at what the OP said and that gets

I don't see why. Even if the only people who turn to piracy are the people who are currently buying second hand paperbacks it would still make sense to look at ways of monetising those downloads. And if you doubt that anyone would write just because of a desire to create, you only need to look at all the free fiction on Smashwords or on blogs, or the fanfic sites. None of that stuff will ever make its creators any money, so by your logic it was obviously never written.