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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Is it honorable to write, and then only allow a select few to read??
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Ah, but a living author has to eat just like everyone else and he/she makes their living via the books that they write. So I can see his point in being upset when a new book is being given away free by someone and the author loses income. While I do think that ebooks are often priced higher than they should be (the same or more than the pbook versions) a living author still has to eat in order to have the strength to continue writing. It's not like it was a book that he wrote 10 or 20 yrs ago either. It would still be wrong, but such a book could be obtained by legal methods at a lower price (a used book store or garage sale) and while the author wouldn't see any income from that sale he wouldn't be cheated because he received a portion of the sale price when it was originally sold. A new book is a different matter altogether.