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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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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Advertisers want the most people to see their ads, and they want the best artists to draw the most people. If no one knows or cares about Steven Lyle Jordan and his silly SF books, they won't go to the site that they pay good money to promote, and they won't get their money's worth. Just like the television model, stations put on shows they expect a lot of people to watch, and advertisers pay the most for the shows with the highest revenue. That's why no station is showing old episodes of
My Mother The Car when they can play
Fast and Furious instead.
And no one wants their site to fill up with a million
My Mother The Cars, making it harder to find the good stuff (cough-
Smashwords!-cough).