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Xenophon · 04-14-2011, 01:08 PM

I purchase books, because...

I'm using $$ to send a market signal of "I want more like that"
I'm using $$ to send a market signal of "more from this author, please"
If it's worth my time to read, it's worth my $$ to pay for
My income depends on functioning IP, so failing to pay would be rather hypocritical
I fundamentally disagree with the "copyright is evil" "information wanna be fwee" "GPLV3 is the greatest thing evah" crowd. Yet another reason why failing to pay would be hypocritical
I live in the real world, where authors who sell enough books can switch to writing full time. And writers who write full time produce... wait for it... more books for me to read. So paying gets me more of what I like.
I live in the real world, where authors who don't sell enough books either write part time, or even just give up on writing entirely. For example, I'm never going to see books 3-N in Joel Rosenberg's Paladins series -- sales were terrible and he had to go back to programming for a living. (Sigh. I really liked those books. ) So not paying would get me less of what I like.

Your poll left out the "it's in my own best interest to pay for what I like" option.

Xenophon

P.S. If you really don't like copyright, there's a quite straightforward way to get rid of it (in the US, at least). All you have to do is amend the Constitution...

04-14-2011, 01:08 PM	#39
Xenophon curmudgeon Posts: 1,487 Karma: 5748190 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Redwood City, CA USA Device: Kobo Aura HD, (ex)nook, (ex)PRS-700, (ex)PRS-500	I purchase books, because... I'm using $$ to send a market signal of "I want more like that" I'm using $$ to send a market signal of "more from this author, please" If it's worth my time to read, it's worth my $$ to pay for My income depends on functioning IP, so failing to pay would be rather hypocritical I fundamentally disagree with the "copyright is evil" "information wanna be fwee" "GPLV3 is the greatest thing evah" crowd. Yet another reason why failing to pay would be hypocritical I live in the real world, where authors who sell enough books can switch to writing full time. And writers who write full time produce... wait for it... more books for me to read. So paying gets me more of what I like. I live in the real world, where authors who don't sell enough books either write part time, or even just give up on writing entirely. For example, I'm never going to see books 3-N in Joel Rosenberg's Paladins series -- sales were terrible and he had to go back to programming for a living. (Sigh. I really liked those books. ) So not paying would get me less of what I like. Your poll left out the "it's in my own best interest to pay for what I like" option. Xenophon P.S. If you really don't like copyright, there's a quite straightforward way to get rid of it (in the US, at least). All you have to do is amend the Constitution...