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Originally Posted by astra
I cannot express the depth of my disappointment.
... They have a file in their hands that thousands of people can read at the same time and they invent yet another hurdle. An artificial deficit.
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I appreciate the frustration, but this system protects
your interests too, after all. That is, assuming you still want good authors to spend a year or more thoroughly researching the topic to write a good book, fiction or non-fiction.
Just imagine if libraries only had to buy one copy of any book and then they could loan it out to all comers for unlimited periods. What would be the point in anyone buying it? In fact, libraries could take turns buying books and borrow them from each other. How could any author support himself in that system? How could we maintain any quality in literature?
If cost is the primary influence for your selection, there are plenty of free books around. They aren't the hot best-sellers of course, because hot best-sellers wouldn't be written if they didn't generate revenue for the people who put in the time and sweat to produce them.