Thread: Let's pay authors directly
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Old 05-09-2011, 08:41 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by J. Strnad View Post
We need to let go of the notion that every pair of eyeballs equals either a sale or a sale lost. Paper books have always been passed around. Authors have never been paid for every pair of eyeballs, so why should we expect ebooks to be any different?

The big problem we face is keeping people from reading over other people's shoulders. How do we force these parasites to buy their own copies???
What we need to do is stop teaching poor children how to read. Then book piracy will disappear completely within a generation. Also, people would go back to writing nice stories about children having pony rides and catching smugglers instead of all this Horrible Henry nonsense which just encourages children to become criminals.
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