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Originally Posted by latepaul
But the thing is, apart from a tiny minority, copyright never actually helped most writers make enough to live on anyway. The rest have always had to supplement the money they make from selling copies of their work with other things. So the reason you don't hear about that many "new" ideas for alternative revenue streams is that they would be ones that already exist and that most writers are using for most of their income.
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I'd really love to see some proof of those statements, and what these alternative revenue streams actually are. Can you link some examples that have worked for people, for example, who haven't already achieved some degree of success through the traditional copyright system?