Thread: Making Money Writing (But Perhaps Not In The Way You'd Think)
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Old 09-26-2011, 11:27 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by VydorScope View Post
I do not see how giving away books cheapens art
If giving away a book cheapens it, then what do we call what libraries do? Prostitution? They give the same book away over and over to lots of different people after all.

Personally, I think Neil Gaiman hit it head on in that by now famous YouTube video. People don't discover a new favorite author by walking into a store and paying cash for the book. They do it either by being lent or given a book. I've only dabbled in writing and I don't delude myself that I could be an author publishing books, but if I was, I would like to think that it would make me happy that someone liked my work so much wanted to share it with their friends by lending them the book.

If a book is worth paying for, people will pay for it, at least as long as the price is kept reasonable. And if the book is not worth $4.99, or whatever the price tag is... well, then that author has other problems .
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