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Originally Posted by rkomar
Maybe, maybe not. You can't get blood from a stone, and most post-secondary students in USA/Canada have very little money (and most of what they have has been borrowed). So, the author wasn't going to be paid whether the student read one of their books or not. Someday, the student will graduate, hopefully get a job and pay off that whopping debt, and then start to have some disposable income. At that point, if they haven't been reading new books for the last decade or two, chances are they're aren't going to take it up. Authors will have lost the chance of ever making any decent money from them.
I would guess that college graduates make up a big chunk of big-spending book buyers. Killing the new book reading habit in their most important years sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.
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Hey, when I was a student, I spent my lunch money on books many times. If you want a book badly enough, you can figure out a way to buy it. I worked my way through college. I never thought that anyone owed me anything for free.