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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Maybe it's nonsense, but I doubt that he knows it.
I'm sure that some of what I post is nonsense, but with respect to any particular point or passage -- I don't know it 
I agree with you about the decent jobs. But fewer works? Now -- and remember that I really like you and agree with most of what you post -- that's a perfect example of nonsense. Low levels of copyright enforcement will force authors to churn out more and more. Historically, it happenned to Sir Walter Scott, back before copyrights were international, and it is happenning again as indicated in this distressing publisher-written post (and in the starting article for that thread):
three to six books done or nearly done in any given year is not at all unreasonable |
Fewer works overall, that is nonsense. I should have made it clear that fewer works from the big 6 were what I was talking about (that seems to be most of what he is reading, from what we can tell from his numerous previous posts, he has no interest in reading free or cheap books).
But let me ask you this, if Giggleton's visions came true, and nobody paid for books ever again, do you really think there would not be fewer books? And especially fewer carefully written, researched and edited books?