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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
I don't think so.
This would either force the normal citizen to change and pay more, or kill the ebooks niche. I doubt clever people would move along, since the new books, written under contract, became mass-products, as opposed to real books, written by people that had really something to say (Aristotle, Plato, and all authors before Bern 1860).
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So no one after 1860 had nothing important to say and did not write "real books"?
Not to mention that authors used to be paid by the word and would pad their books to increase their payments.
Apache