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Originally Posted by NickyWithNook
I can't imagine anyone would make a profit off a $1 book.
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Here is where the desire to turn something one may love into a viable occupation runs head on into the bullet train of human behavior. Not all fiction is written by people desiring to make a career of writing. Not even all good fiction.
For a time the wall of production and distribution costs served to protect professional writers and their publishers from being swamped by a sea of talented amatures, most of whom write one or two books and then go persue something else. It doesn't deter them if they don't make money - they are not in it for that.
The wall is gone.
There are sites dedicated to helping people like me find books that are well written and appeal to us among all this new material. Even if the publishing houses could get the copyright of their catalogs extended to eternity, it would avail them nought against the tide of writers who just want to be heard, and who will price their stories accordingly.
Professional writers who turn out well researched nonfiction are in a much better position.