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2. Digital "media" has a value, OK. It's digtal "copy" which does not. To fully get out of the "old model" you have to erase the whole idea of "copy". It's not a matter of supply and demand. It's just the fact that "copies" do not exist.
I pay for media. I pay my computer, my connection, my ebook reader, the elecrtical power to keep them going... Digital media has definitely a value and it's not free at all.
OTOH, digital copy is valueless. How much do you pay for the "Copy" you create in RAM when you open your book? Are you stealing from the author?
The value is mostly in the content, and then in the medium, like it always have been. In this "new model", a "copy" does not correspond to a "new instance of the medium".
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You are not paying for the 1's and 0's; you're paying for the right to use the book, video, or whatever. No payment = no right.
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3. Piracy. In Italy we have:
Total amount of legal ebook novels: 0
Total amount of pirated e-novels: 30.000 and counting.
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If there really are zero Italian eBooks available (and forgive me for saying so, but I find that a little hard to believe), it seems as though a major business opportunity exists to fill that gap in the market.
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4. Authors: nobody should expect to be paid just for having put some words on a page. I did it, and the crap I wrote wasn't published, and I din't make a penny. Will you pay me? I don't think so.
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Nobody is saying that authors should "expect" to be paid. What people are saying is that authors have a right to put a price on their work, and customers have a right to buy it at that price, or not to buy it, as they see fit, just as with any other product. You do NOT have the right to say "it's not worth $x, so I'm just going to take it without paying for it".