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Originally Posted by Shaggy
As a programmer do you expect to be able to write one piece of software, and then make a living for the rest of your life without writing anything else?
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HA! It's been done.
As a programmer, if I wrote a program that I was selling, I would expect to get paid for every copy of it... even though making a copy is [close to] free. The value isn't in the CD it is shipped on, it is the benefit the end user derives from it. Much software is not sold [licensed] for $X as a download or $X + $Y for a shipped CD with packaging. The extra cost covers the package, shiping and handling.
Why should books be any different just because the delivery method changed... only the cost of that deliver method should be adjusted, the royalties the author makes should be the same.
BOb
(TO SELF: No more never ending threads!)