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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Agreed. However, note that books borrowed from a (U.S.) library are also "taken without fair fair recompense"--the ideas go from the author to the reader without payment. The idea that the author deserves payment for every single reader has never been the way books worked, and it is that notion that filesharing challenges, not the notion that prices are too high for people to pay for them.
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Entirely correct. If we DID have to pay each time we checked out a book, the library and authors would be receiving numerous complaints from at least THIS patron. Alot of books are crap; when I check a book out, sometimes I read only 10 pages or so before discerning that it is crap. So what should happen in this instance? Should the writer have to pay ME for wasting my time?
According to the ALA, there are 123,129 libraries in the US- that's 123,129 potential sales for an author.