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Originally Posted by petrucci
It does not cost anything to 'buy' and e-book that is out of copyright.  |
I think that depends on the quality of the copy you want. I read a copy of Beowulf this year. The PG copies were pretty much nowhere near the quality I wanted and I had to go dig up a paper copy. If there were copies of the Norton or Signett editions with commentary I would have purchased.
Its a fallacy to believe that just because something
can be found for free means that no one would pay for a decent rendition. People do it all the time. If that were really the case...everyone would only pirate and no one would buy ebooks.
Not go into everything that you said - I just want to remind you that all of these books have been available for a very long time. Yet people still have jobs in publishing. Could it possibly be that people like new content? *gasp*
And re: musicians...again I call shenanigans. I know more than a handful of "professional musicians" who have published CDs, gig regularly, and have full time jobs. I would bet money that the number of people counted on that list were full time musicians vs people who haven't made enough to live off of that trade. They still count.