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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
This is the heart of it for me. I know lots of people like to say "I always lent paperbacks." Well, technology changed. And so do the rules and reasons for them. Because something is easily possible, and people are mimicking a privilege they enjoyed before, doesn't change that fact that things changed. Lending can hurt author income. Just as secondhand selling hurt authors.
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So? As you say, secondhand selling hurt authors, but it was and is a perfectly legitimate practice, and authors had to suck it up. That's life.
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Author income has always been an issue. I know quite a few authors who stopped writing because they had to get jobs--and this was before indies and Kindle.
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And I'm supposed to feel sorry for them? Hey, if they aren't good enough/fortunate enough/tough enough to make it as a writer, that's their problem. Most of us do need to have real jobs, sometimes ones we don't like. Again, that's life. Writers aren't special snowflakes.