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Originally Posted by martienne
—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.
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Books got written before copyright, yes. But a lot less books got written. If people want to read books that you call trash, it's none of your business. Having more books is better than having less books - it leads to better quality. If we had only one or two how-to books what's the incentive for them to be any good? If people are asking too much money for a book, then readers don't have to buy it, they can buy something else.
Readers should be able to decide for themselves what book to read, they don't need some commissar to pick their books for them.