Thread: The culture of entitlement and illegal downloads
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Old 01-29-2012, 06:58 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan View Post
So, subsidizing books through ad revenue... the TV model, essentially. Yes, that could work, though a system like that would surely force the downloading service to restrict the authors who were allowed to post their books to the site, and therefore who would get their money. IOW, it would become a Most Popular Authors site, shutting out most independents and new authors.

It doesn't address entitlement, of course; in fact, it encourages it, since consumers won't have to pay for product. That will make it that much harder for authors who can't land deals with the ad-supported sites, and must sell directly to consumer at practically nothing to compete with free authors.

I can't see any reason why they wouldn't accept content from anyone who wanted to create it. Even if it just sat on their servers and never got downloaded the costs would be negligible. The most popular creators would get the most money, but that's pretty much how it is now anyway.
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