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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
I am not sure that Porn is the largest movie industry in the world. Certainly Bollywood makes an awful lot of films and a lot of money changes hands in Hollywood for films.
Yes, most novels (substituting it for books) are not not meant to educate... in fact I have never had much time for novels that are meant to educate. And to invoke Sturgeon's law, 95% of them are crap. But 5% of them are worth reading and remembering.
In any case, to my mind, complaining about what the publishing industry is currently publishing (in this thread) seems to be more a rationalization as to why one shouldn't feel guilty about illegally sharing books.
I agree with a lot of what people in this thread have said about middle men, and authors getting too little for their efforts. That being said, the current system at least gets the authors some compensation. Illegal file sharing does not.
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Bill
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I fully agree. We often read comments like this: "if we download from the darknet they will lose sales and listen to us". This is really nonsense, since "they" don't even know you are downloading from the darknet and "they" don't know if you would actually have paid for the books. Besides, we are not children, when we want something we must have it, even by illegal means? Speak up, that is what you should do. Why don't we value the writers' contribution and help them make a living off sales (or at least have a chance of doing that) rather than forcing them all become beggars for government or industry handouts?