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Originally Posted by ApK
But more to the point, we, as a society, decided that lending libraries are of value to society, so we create them and support them, and in doing so, authors agree to accept the small potential 'lost' sales from them.
And they pay for the books they acquire and lend, because we as a society decided that intellectual property like books have value, and that value should be protected by laws, which sometimes means paying for them.
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So you just disregard those who think otherwise? Even though their numbers have been growing exponentially for years? Mostly due to those born digital and those who accept the digital post birth. We don't think authors shouldn't be paid, we just see all your payment methods as archaic and not flowing the monies to where they need to be flowed.
Some people just don't want to pay for books, they would rather buy pizzas and beer, that's cool too. If you don't want to write anymore because of these people not paying for your books???