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Originally Posted by ficbot
Are you actually serious? I honestly can't tell if you mean this statement as a joke or not. If you really are serious about this, you've just lost me as a customer, at any rate. What an offensive thing to say in a thread where dozens, including me, have said that we do pay for our books, we want to pay for them, and all we want is for the publishing industry to set up mechanisms where we can do this in a fair and encumbered way. If you meant this statement as a joke, please clarify what exactly you are getting at here because honestly, I'm a little offended.
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In case you hadn't noticed, yours is not the only voice in this thread: There are as many people here saying that they just want free books, and that I, a creator of those books, essentially should have no say in the matter. If you thought I directed my statement at every customer and potential customer out there, as opposed to the entry I followed, I apologize.
But when you say "fair and (un?)encumbered," is that to mean fair to you? Or am I included? Because, frankly, you have
no idea how insulted I am by this thread...
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Originally Posted by tompe
There is no evidence that piracy cut into the income for the authors that do not sell so much.
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Of course there's no evidence, since there's no way to accurately measure whether or not a pirate might have bought a book if they hadn't pirated it. There is also no "evidence" that celebrity endorsements sell more products... yet, inexplicably, celebrities are hired, and more products move off the shelves. Citing "no evidence" is a familiar dodge, and a broken record.
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Originally Posted by tompe
Seeing a lot less of the bad writing might be a good thing. I do not see why we must support all the people that want to write. Should that principle hold for anything a person want to do?
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If it was only the bad writing we'd see less of, that might be one thing (though who are you to judge?). But you won't just be losing "bad" writers... you'll also be losing "good" writers who can no longer make a living in your "free book" world. Or did you just assume that all popular writers are "bad"?