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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Why should people limit themselves to a small set of authors?
A lot of people spending a little per book on lots of books are putting more money in more authors pockets than a few people buying a few books at high prices. (I am a slow reader and only buy a few (for this crowd) books a year, a very few expensive, some cheap, and some middling.)
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If you don't have any favorite authors and don't care if a specific author writes another book or not, then you shouldn't. If you do care, then buying hardback books gets the author more dollars to keep writing than buying paper books and gets the author a whole lot more than going to the library, or buying used books.
Supply and demand have two components. You have to have customers who buy and you have to have authors who write. Most authors write with the expectation that they are going to make money. Few actually do, but most want to make money.