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Originally Posted by darryl
So far as PD books are concerned, they are not generally part of your so-called race to the bottom. Mostly they have finally reached the Public Domain after the expiry of some mostly very lengthy copyright terms. Fan fiction is just that. I myself am not a reader of it, though I hear that there are some stories of very high quality, though these are apparently more the exception. I would have thought such stories are not in competition with either Indie or Tradpub books. In fact quite the opposite. I imagine that fan fiction is a great promotional tool which satiates the voracious appetite for fanatical fans, who mostly buy new "official" books at top price as soon as they become available.
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As someone who both regularly checks fadedpage for interesting PD books and reads fanfic, I have to say that this does effect book purchasing. In fact just yesterday I was realizing that there were genres which I now rarely read outside of fanfic and thus purchase much less frequently then in decades past.
In my case this has freed up money for buying other books (mostly nonfiction) but there are many fanfic authors/readers who write/read almost exclusively for visual media (movies/TV shows). They may not feel the need to buy books at all.