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Originally Posted by Tuna
In this time of self-publishing online, it is the author's right to choose how they distribute their works. You may have no respect for the publishers, but clearly the authors who publish through them don't quite share your point of view. What right do you have to deny the author's chosen means of earning money, just because you object to the the publisher they have chosen? Have you some higher moral authority than them?
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Again, you're making assumptions where there are none to be made. If I download a file no money is lost, I don't deny the author anything because of the nature of a digital file, there is nothing to be denied. What the author might gain is a reader, a fan, even an evangelist for their work. It's exactly the same if a friend loans me a book, or I pick up an old paperback on a train seat.
As far as I can see it, the only way to handle the digital age is to reverse the old paradigms of buying/selling.
Now you get it for free and pay-if-you-like after you've consumed the entertainment. Authors/Musicians/Creative types get compensated for their work, but more than that, they get readers, viewers, listeners. And that's more important than money any day of the week. Bonus, the audience will never have to have that "I paid X amount of money for that rubbish! What was I thinking!" moment ever again
