[BeccaPrice]

Now I'm really confused about what the argument is about. Of course, if I read Author A I'm not reading Author B. I don't make my decisions on which author to read based on who is public domain, I make it on who I feel in the mood to read at that moment.

Is the argument that there shouldn't be public domain books because then people read for free (or cheap) rather than reading modern authors who are more expensive?

Yes, the more long-tail books there are available, the more competition any give book has for my attention. Does that mean that old books should be made unavailable just so I'll be forced into reading something more current?

Does that mean that there shouldn't be any blogs or this forum, because the time I'm spending reading this free content could/should be spent reading books for which I've paid money?

I'm seriously confused about this all.