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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
True. The other significant reason is that customers are too greedy and selfish to honestly compensate creators for their work, and will come up with any excuse to avoid doing so.
Well-p... if this is the direction the publishing world is heading in, then so be it. I suppose all of us creators had better round up some charitable patrons, or just put our works away and go get real jobs (toting barges and lifting bales, to be paid in whip-scars, I guess). But if stepping a few centuries backward thanks to the advances of modern technology is good enough for the public, who am I to argue?
Personally, I doubt we'll be better off in that world, insofar as creative works goes. But the "common man" has run rampant over other industries through selfish, immoral and unthinking demands before, and there's no reason to expect that literature is necessarily immune to that.
(That'll show those pesky Founding Fathers: This is the twenty-first century... we can screw up anything.)
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Not any excuse, just an economically viable one. Every computer (among other things) is a factory for reproducing digital files. This is a
fact, and it isn't going away. You can't have a functioning computer without it. So either you scrap all the computers or you learn to live in the current reality. The world doesn't guarantee me a job, (and I haven't had one for over a year), and it doesn't guarantee you a fair royalty for your works.
It's not "the common man" that has run rampant over industries, it's technology that built up industries, and new technology is tearing them back down.