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Originally Posted by HarryT
Believe me (speaking as a former author), writing for many is just a job like any other - a way of putting food on the table and paying the mortgage. This "romantic ideal" of people "writing for love" is all very nice, but, with all due respect, I really don't think it bears much connection with the "real world".
If you want people to carry on writing books, please support them by buying those books (whether paper books or eBooks).
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Thats is what concerns me. Will the next Will Durant or Arnold Toynbee decide not to publish because all those years of work can be had for free in a matter of seconds. Of course I have owned several copies of the Durant set, which I never paid more than 12 dollars for and also have the ebooks that I got for free.
