Thread: Why are ebooks so expensive?
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Old 06-02-2011, 01:27 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by Hellmark View Post
If everything is to be free, what incentive would there be to create new works? As things stand, people are able to create and have their work support themselves and their family. If they had no possibility of income, they would not be able to support themselves and would have to find alternative forms of work. Even if they did it for the pure enjoyment of it, they still would not have the means of sharing it with the world at large, since that still costs plus the companies that would ordinarily be there to provide services to share it would no longer be existing since they couldn't generate profit and couldn't afford to keep running while doing that type of work.
According to the entertainment industry, pirate websites are making $billions per year from free content. Are you suggesting that is not true?
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