What logic... barely said a word, was laughing too much at idealistic, ludicrous unrealism... and as far as much of the free fiction around, it's worth what it costs, still doesn't make a scrap of difference to the right of anybody to be paid for their work whether an author, sculptor, painter, surgeon, street cleaner or a Mr Ploppy...
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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.
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