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Old 04-28-2012, 06:57 AM   #118
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Originally Posted by Giggleton View Post
Still, I have yet to understand why one day someone will say seek out all knowledge so that you may better understand yourself and the world, and the next day this same someone will ask you for an admission fee.
This someone sounds more like a minister than an author, although I suppose there are authors like this.

Either way, are you sure you don't know why said minister or author would care more about making a more comfortable life for their family than the enlightenment of strangers?

Or it could just be that the minister/author is a manipulative SOB who wants more money to have more power over others.

The question of why intellectual property needs to be priced is touched on in the one eBook that I have ever paid for, for my own personal use as opposed to a gift. I now find it available, with a wait, for my favorite price. Bad title, good book:

http://ebooks.nypl.org/A675657B-C5A5...9-c297ae6738ea
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