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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Your position would result in less books being written, if paying was an afterthought, then few people would pay. If few people paid, authors would have to make a living doing other things beside writing. This means they would have less time to write, and therefore, less books would get written. If everything is free, no one has any incentive to produce.
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—Books got written before modern copyright and corporate publishers.
—Books got written in strictly socialist countries either because people loved writing and would write regardless, or because they got paid a salary for being an author rather than having to live off royalties.
But sure, there might be less books written, slightly less. In a content driven model, quality not quantity would rule though.
Not necessarily a bad thing. There'd be no hyping trashy, mediocre potential bestsellers with cheesy marketing campaigns. No myriad of x10 "how to" books on the same topic, asking fat sums for slim books that are just a re-hash of existing material. There'd be one or two good "how-to" books per topic.