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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
If it isn't good for readers, it is definitely not good for authors. I don't care who sells what, authors are in the same bucket as the readers. There may be distributors, artists, publishers, marketers, webpages, and retailers in-between those two, but in the end, you need two actual things to read: an author and a reader.
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And if it's not good for authors, sooner or later it will be bad for readers.
Readers need authors to be happy and productive and following their visions--authors need an audience willing and able to appreciate their efforts.
There's more to the relationship than the commercial transaction.
(Though, of course, paying the bills to keep body and soul together is part of "happy".
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