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Originally Posted by stonetools
Yet most e/book customers disagree with you. Ever wonder why that is?
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No.
I don't base my personal opinions on who agrees or disagrees with me. I'm getting too old for that. Its a waste of time, actually.
But now that you've asked me to ponder this, I thought a few posts up hating DRM was the popular opinion...
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Why aren't paying customers flocking to Smashwords, where its all DRM free, all the time, and at low, low prices too?
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The Mill River Recluse, by Darcie Chan, is one I personally paid 99c for and it is apparently doing really well in the sales. I bought it from Smashwords ages ago. I'm currently reading it and finding the story quite good.
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Oh, and that library borrowing? You can't borrow a book from the library if the author doesn't write the book, because he can't make a living writing.
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I've borrowed printed books all my life. Some have resulted in a sale from me, and some have not. That's the whole point of libraries, regardless of the format. To find out if the book that everyone is raving about is all that and a bag of chips.
Authors make a living writing. They write stuff, people read it, and the people who are hooked end up buying it. The people who didn't like their books after having read them wouldn't have bought them.
That's the value of an author. I consider some authors so valuable that even if I don't NEED to buy a book to read it (I can borrow and re-borrow books multiple times from the library) I still do, willingly buy.
There is one book that I ended up buying for my personal bookshelf last year even after I had spent ten years borrowing it from the library repeatedly. (The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood for those curious) but I bought the printed book, not the digital one, and I never will buy the digital one.
If an author writes stuff that is popular enough to be permanently wanted, library borrowing will not only not phase said author, it will appeal to said author.