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Originally Posted by Groucho54
The arguments that the quality of literature will suffer and authors will just not produce is something the book publishers would love you to believe... don't!
It's only the publishing houses' bottom line that would suffer.
The same argument has been used (falsely) by the music industry to protect their revenue stream for a while now and there is absolutely no evidence that the world's musicians have lost their muse..
Writers just love their material to be read... and that's the end of it. Will they produce less quality work? No. Will they only write trite rubbish? No.
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Welcome to MR. This is simply wrong. Sure writers are going to write, painters are going to paint, musicians are going to play music. BUT without mechanisms in place to allow those creatives to put food in the dog bowl by making money at what they do the potential for creating great works is severely hampered. Modern tools and technologies make it easy to blog or post pictures or music and every tom dick and harry that think they are a writer or musician or artist can post their work on a web page and call themselves an artist or writer or whatever.
Are they?