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Originally Posted by leebase
Opting back in....Too many trees to allow folks to see the forest.
Ok...let's use libraries, charity or not, to make the "forest point" of "supporting the art you love". You love libraries? You use them a LOT? Do you volunteer at the library? Do you help fund raise for the library? (and no, donating books you don't want any more doesn't count).
Do you send you kids to scouting...but never take a turn as a scout leader or helper?
Do you put your kids in park league sports but never coach, assistant coach, or take your turn bringing snacks?
Do you put your kids in the children's ministry at church but never take a turn as teach or assistant or serving any innumerable other ways a church needs (insert temple or any other type of organization in place of church if you'd like).
Always "when you can/could" and never about when you couldn't.
I ran this topic by my daughter (24yr old) and she related it to music. She listens to music via a streaming service like Spotify/Apple Music. But she buys the CD's from the bands she supports. She goes to their concerts, buys the t-shirts. She loves their music and as it's not main stream, she's keen to be one of the supporters to keep the band going.
"Did you just compare reading to listening to music"? Yeah....that's the tree instead of the forest. The forest is "support the art you love".
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I didn't bother replying to your last post out of hope that you would in fact stay out. As you said yourself, repeating your mantra yet again is pointless. It would be so even if it did have some merit. If you need to delude yourself that paying absolutely top price for a tradpub book is good for anyone but the retailer, please continue to do so. If you regard your purchase as being good value that is all that matters. Just have the good grace to keep quiet about it. Buying books is not a competition for karma nor that matter should it be an occasion for virtue signalling.
If you must stay in the discussion, please stop chanting long enough to engage. Your mantra is obviously true in the case of Indies. Yet you choose to ignore various features of the tradpub market which have been pointed out which make it untrue in the case of most if not all tradpub books. If these features of the market are not accurately described then please point out the inaccuracies. I'd be grateful to have my ignorance cured, if ignorance it is. Just please stop the chanting. It's giving me a headache.