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Originally Posted by pwalker8
There are those on this forum who consider books a commodity and interchangeable. For them just buying a generic book because it's in a price range they prefer makes sense. That's fine. It's a choice. I choose to do differently because I prefer specific authors when it comes to books, so I act in a manner which is more likely to result in more books that I like. If enough people agree with me about an individual author that I like, that author is more likely to keep writing. I think it counter productive to express this idea in moral terms rather than in terms of simple cause and effect. .
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You hit the nail on the head here. If it had been expressed in those terms since the beginning, hardly anyone would have disagreed.
I'm certainly in the first group by my buying habits and preferences.