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Originally Posted by anamardoll

And yet I operate my blog at great expense to myself without a single penny in return.............

I'm not trying to argue with you, but a lot of your arguments seem so highly-polarized as to be almost strawmen.

I guess I'd give more credence to your retort if you didn't put up "I have a blog" as evidence that folks would continue to write books without compensation.

Originally Posted by anamardoll

There will always be people who will produce valuable goods in absence of monetary profit. That doesn't mean we should/shouldn't abolish the concept of monetary profit, just that it's wrong to insist or imply that without monetary incentive there would be no books produced anymore.

Nowhere in any of my arguments have I posited that without copyright no one would write books. On the contrary, we have plenty of evidence via Smashwords that all kinds of folks are happily writing books they give away or sell very cheaply.

And yet, if that was really good enough -- then no one would be upset at the high prices of professionally created books. Why bother if the free world was producing such good material to read.

Originally Posted by anamardoll

People are motivated by many factors. Money is one of them. It's not the alpha and omega, at least not for everyone.

By all means, continue to write your blog for free. I support everyone's right to give away their own work. I also recognize the virtue of financial incentive.

Lee