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Originally Posted by Crowl
Sorry, I should have said loss of income for the author rather than a lost sale of a new book even if the two things are effectively the same thing, apparently I was unclear.
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That doesn't change a single thing about what I said. Resale is not loss of income or sale or any term you want to come up with. It's part of the way markets work, has always been, and should always be. The effort to undermine this through indoctrinating propaganda is relatively new, and it's insidious. It's an unfounded and often tautological approach to justify further erosion of individual rights to be replaced by corporate rights for the singular goal of making more money without offering a better product or doing more work.
Of course authors should be rewarded for their creations but frankly they are not nearly special or rare enough in this world that somehow they deserve to have the rights of others taken away in the name of making themselves more money. Same goes for any other entity in the chain of supply between purchaser and producer.
If I choose to resell the right I purchased to read a book I should be able to do that as I please. It's no different than reselling a tomato I bought at the store. Both actions are perfectly legal and have never caused harm to markets. In fact, it is this reselling that makes industry and markets possible.
After all, at the end of the day, you're almost never buying a book/license directly from the author. You're buying it from some company that bought it from some other company that bought it from another company or agent that found the author. Other similar chains exist, of course.
The noxious cloud of mythology floating around these boards these days is becoming rather suffocating.
