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Originally Posted by netseeker
Agreed, most of the authors don't get much money for their works and many of them do suffer from piracy. But piracy en masse is just one answer to a market which does ignore its consuments. Imho the publishing houses and distributors are actively creating the problem, not the authors. And the authors should be interested in a fair and functional market. Consumers and authors don't bring enough pressure to bear on the publishing houses and distributors at the moment. Hopefully this will change in the near future.
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I'm going to raise hackles with this but.....Maybe too many writers? Writing has a low barrier of entry, and there is enormous amounts of books already in existance, both current and in the past (more readily available used today than any time in the past). Factor in less reading time because of so many other options....Too many writers (living and dead) chasing too few readers?