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Originally Posted by elcreative
Oft repeated argument... it doesn't really matter anyway... you win and the number of quality new books will go down as authors will need another job to eat and writing will become even more part-time... but that doesn't matter, does it, there are already more books out there for cheap prices than you can ever read in a lifetime so why bother with paying someone for new ones?
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Many quality writers already have part time (or even full time!) jobs besides writing, because even the old model doesn't pay a sustainable wage outside of the top 1%. One example I know off the top of my head is Cherie Priest (she works for a video game company), despite the popularity and success of her Clockwork Century novels.
The nice thing about ebooks is that it actually makes it more possible for authors to write for a living, because it makes it easier to cut out (most of) the middlemen while still selling at prices equal to or lower than mass market paperbook prices of old.