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Originally Posted by tompe
Yes, this is strange. If somebody download a book and are not allowed to do it there is people making the moral argument that the author looses money and it is wrong to download. But concerning library people seem to think they have the right to register at remote libraries and lend books an infinite amount of times and the author will not get any money for that and that is OK.
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I'm all for authors getting paid for their work. But I know I - and many others here - are protective of our libraries. I for one was able to feed my love for books at an early age only because of libraries. As others have said on the various threads about this (and/or at
DearAuthor and
SBTB), that "subsidized" habit when I was young and poor became a well-paying one now that I'm a working adult. How many authors have made money from me now because of my access to their work (or their predecessors' work) at the library?
I really think that screwing libraries in the short term will screw the publishers and authors in the long term.
And I can't help but wonder...if the library hadn't been there at that time, if the books I wanted to read hadn't been there, would I be the reader I am today? Would I have found other interests instead? Because I have to admit - the books they made me read in school were definitely NOT what made me love reading...