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Originally Posted by xg4bx
not to be flip but hey, thats life. why go to work tomorrow, you might die.
if you've got a contract for your book then you already got paid for it. why should your kids be entitled to continue receiving profits from a job that was completed and that you already received payment for? adjust the royalty system then so that authors aren't waiting to get paid.
i respect authors. i appreciate the time they gave to something they enjoy doing. i just don't think their heirs are entitled to profit in perpetuity from their writing. if they want more money they should pick up a pen themselves.
an author who writes solely in hopes that they're setting up a gravy train for their kids isn't one i'd like to support anyway.
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Anyone who acquires anything of value that they don't plan on selling before they die or is saving money they don't plan on spending is trying to set up a gravy train for their kids. I personally don't see it as evil even though my parents did not manage to do it. It is a survival of the species mechanism perhaps.
Helen