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Jon:
That's *exactly* the point of the long tail! Once a work is out there, selling it is all profit, for the production costs have been amortised long ago.
However, I see Ralph & Dennis's point wrt out of print books. I like the model of OCR work for street cred/wuffie. That would be exquisite.
A few weeks back, helping a friend paint, I mentioned that nowadays, people share as much content as we ever did. The rub is, with digital content, I still have a copy of the book/movie/track after I pass it on to a friend. We all did something similar with mix tapes, TV shows on videotape, whatever. Now, we make a perfect copy and retain a perfect copy.
In cases like this, do not intend to defraud authors and distributors, but to share the joy that content brings.
While we painted his shed, I also railed against the "commercial" that admonishes us to not steal this movie. Way to alienate your customer with the implication that we are thieves.
@ Spider Matt: At this stage in my life, am looking to mimise my belongings. As I am married and never have my boss over for dinner, there is no one to impress with my paper trophies stacked upon the shelves. I understand that some people feel otherwise, but I like reading the text and having it disapparate.
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