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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
...I'd like to think that the entertainment value of the story I crafted is worth something... when everyone seems fixated on the fact that, since it's only a bunch of electrons, it is intrinsically worthless.
In short: Why am I bothering to write for anyone at all?
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Same old mistake. You cannot separate the concept of "your story" from the one of the "digital" copy.
So I ask you directly: in the hypothesis that you'll write a novel a year for the next 20 years, will you give me unlimited access to every past and future novel for 170€, regardless of the number of "copies" I get and regardless of how many times I re-read them?
And will you give me the same access to two books for say 20€?
Why can't we think about "us" and "you" (plural) and make the same deal including everyone in the world?
Why do you think you're getting screwed if you're paid from your readers?