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Originally Posted by HarryT
But the point is that you have the right to set the price of that manuscript. You have the absolute and exclusive right; nobody else. You can say "you have to pay me $100 if you want to read my book" and all anyone else can do is decide whether or not to pay it. They don't have the right to say "it's not worth $100 so I'm just going to take it anyway". That's the whole point of copyright. Yes, you may well write a lousy book which nobody wants to pay for - that's something the market will decide for itself - but the right to determine the price of your work is vested by the law in you, as the author, not in the reader.
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Isn't the market speaking when piracy is on the rise? When something is really really good most people I know, including myself, will buy the actual content. Anyone whose relevancy is completely washed out by piracy probably doesn't produce good enough work.
I own all my favorite books/movies/albums. You never asked what the difference was between what I do eventually own and what I do not. In any given collection of books the vast majority of them will not be very good. The cream rises to the top.