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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I think we'll need true fans of our work to support us in the future, people who will pay to read you even when they don't have to.
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That concerns me, because of a demonstrated aspect of human nature:
Do it if you can get away with it. If so many people illegally obtain ebooks and don't get caught or punished, others come to be desensitized to the need to be upstanding citizens, and will begin to do things illegally because it's accepted that it's okay (like speeding and jaywalking).
This could change if authors somehow become more "respectable" as creators in society, worthy of everyone's support, instead of the prevailing attitude that they all but sponge off of society, and at the very least, produce a value-less product in entertainment media. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
So I suspect an ebook system making everyone pay--but with micropayments that few would oppose because of their low impact on the wallet--would be more effective than essentially hoping for what amounts to donations from a few patrons.