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Originally Posted by petrucci
Well apparently, Quantum Iguanas are disagreeable creatures. Even when you agree with them they disagree.  Case in point is my post about the studies of freely available literature. In general the studies supported your contention, as did my summary of them. You then respond with:
I believe that your argument here is fallacious. People have a limited amount of time to read, as their lives are finite. In that time they choose books to read. If they choose a particular book, then they cannot read another book at that same instant. Thus, books may be thought of as being in competition to be read. If a person reads a work by Austen or Dickens, then he or she is not reading another book. This makes competition for the remaining reading slots more fierce.
I appreciate your point about obscure books. However, in many instances you take a capitalistic approach. If these books were valued then people would be willing to pay the small amount that they would cost. If not, then maybe they are not worthwhile.
I am not complaining about laziness. I am also not saying that people cannot make it big. What I am saying is that fewer people can make it big because part of the market is being taken up by free and out of copyright books.
I have no problem with fanfic, so long as the authors are earning a living doing something. However, if some rich guy, with nothing else to do, spends all of his time writing fanfic, and publishes it for free, then there is a problem. Such fiction, presuming it were good and there is no reason to think that it could not be, could decimate the profession of writing fiction. |
That is the FUNNIEST thing I've read in weeks! *boo hoo*
(not) Sorry to say, I still disagree with your point. I think that it is like crying that your kid can't make the honor roll because some other person's kid did it already (oh noes! It's not my fault! It's someone else!)...and on that note I'll let Jay-Z close it out for me.
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Already Home
[Chorus]
Oh they want me to fall (fall),
Fall from the top (top),
They want me to drop (drop)
They want me to stop (stop)
They want me to go (go),
I'm already gone (already)
The s*** that I'm on
I'm already home
(Hey, I'm already home yeah)
[Jay-Z]
I taught 'em about fish scale they want me to fish for them
They want me to catch clean, then cook up a dish for them
All of this just for them, or they got a diss for him
They want me to disappear, like it's gonna SHIFT for them
They say that I'm in the way, they want me to sit for them
But what they admitting is, they ain't got s*** for him
But really the fact is, we not in the same bracket
Not in the same league, don't shoot at the same baskets
Don't pay the same taxes, hang with the same bi***
So how am I in the way, what is it I'm missing?
[Chorus]
[Jay-Z]
I'm in the hall already, on the wall already
I'm a work of art, I'm a Warhol already
On another level, on another plane already
H-O-V I got my own lane already (already)
I done cooked up the rock already
So why the f*** can't you all get hot already (already)
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