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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
I would say no. An author can't take that income from anyone else. All they can do is to persuade the reader to buy their books. It is the reader's money until the reader decides where to spend it.
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If I would have otherwise bought a book from author A, but now I'm buying a book from author B, then author A loses a source of income to author B.
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
If there were one publisher, yes. But with multiple publishers, they want to shove the other publishers books off the shelves. Look at Coke and Pepsi, they put out so many variations of their products, and one of the reasons they do this is to dominate shelf space.
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If their interest would have been shoving the other publishers off the shelf they would have lowered the book prices. Coke and Pepsi dominate the shelves especially when they have sales.