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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Why waste money on books when equally good free ones exist?
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Because one good book is not the same as another. I was just goofing around, not mocking the idea of free books. There's definitely a wealth of excellent free literature out there, of course. However, I won't pass up a book with a certain theme/style/idea that I find particularly appealing at the time, just because it costs.
Steinbeck being the equal of Cormac McCarthy doesn't mean I'm gonna pass up the experience of
Blood Meridian just because I came across a free copy of
East of Eden. I recently read
King Solomon's Mines. It was free. But I read it because I wanted to read
King Solomon's Mines. Had it been a few bucks it would have been worth every penny.
There's a lot of excellent new authors, writing excellent new things that interest me. Besides, if people only read what was free, many of those free books wouldn't have been published to begin with.