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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
But those of us arguing that you should support your favorite authors aren't making that case at all. It's not about me somehow directly putting more of my hard-earned shekels directly in the author's pocket. It is about making sure that the author sells enough that the publisher will give the author more chances to publish.
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Not at all. The initial argument was exactly that, you should pay the hardcover price, or you're cheap. Yes, by now it's been changed to just buying at all. But that wasn't how it started out.