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Originally Posted by leebase
Nobody is worrying about the free offerings. Yes, they exist and “nobody cares”....except their mom and 10 other people on the internet. Nobody is trying to infringe the copyright or term limit the copyright of those authors. We even have the Creative Commons license for those who want to release their content into the world with the caveat that all built on their stories also are part of Creative Commons.
People are advocating/discussing the doing away with copyright. And yes, I have complete and utter disdain for that notion.
If YOU want to give away your creative work...that’s your choice. Ending other people's copyright or doing away with copyright is taking the ownership away from the creators.
And that’s no different than confiscating someone’s business or nationalizing an industry.
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Technically there are some free books that turn out good enough to be picked up by a publisher and become best sellers. A couple of Larry Corriea's books started that way. I seem to recall a couple of other authors who mentioned that's how they started. But yes, they are quite rare compared to the mass of stuff out there.
I disagree with the idea of doing away with copyright, I like my books, am happy to pay for them and want my favored authors to keep writing them. I just want copyright to go back to a more reasonable time period for a number of reasons, most of which I've given at some point in this thread and won't repeat here.
At one time, the vast majority of books earned everything they were going to earn in the first year. Shelf space was limited and book sellers simply didn't keep books that weren't moving on the shelves very long. I think it would be interesting to see how much that has changed with ebooks and the change over to buying books on the internet. It may be that books now have a chance to build an audience over the space of several years.