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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
There are so many legal ways to enjoy content (I speak of books here) for free - they're called libraries. I've read blog posts by some authors who are indignant of even THAT.
Paraphrasing here, "I am the author of Name of Book. I receive fan mail sometimes from people praising my work up and down, only to get to the end of the email and find out that they've read it at the library!"
Indignance at piracy I can understand, but authors quickly lose me when I've done the right thing and "waited in line" for my hold to come in and given the book back after I was done, only to find it to be marginally better than piracy in the eyes of the author.
Is shelling out money I don't have the only "real way" to honor an author?
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The way to a writer's heart is to buy their book on the day it is released (or at least within a week of release). That's when they have the best chance of getting onto bestseller lists that will attract other readers.