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For those of you who are coming to the thread late, like I am, and were wondering if there were posts that offered dissenting opinions to the OP read post 50 by TCCPhreak and 72 by Rylon.
The topic of the business models that are used to compensate authors for their work is an interesting one.
Traditionally authors are compensated for each book that is produced. The books are priced in such a fashion that the author and publisher are compensated for their work. I assume that the used market and book lending are taken account into the initial pricing equation.
Although it may be possible to construct a more 'just' system, it may not be practical to implement one. A person with exceptional memory could memorize a book and then sell it. It would seem fair that such a person should pay more for the book, as they would be able to retain possession of its content after selling it, and also benefit monetarily from selling the book. Along similar lines, it would seem fair that an exceptional person who is able to apply the information from a book to get rich should be charged more for that book than someone who is not able to make such an application. Implementing such pricing models is not practical.
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