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The $9.99 problem
I don't think authors are the problem and I don't think the readers are the problem. For $9.99 both authors and readers could get what they want but with an extremely simplified distibution chain a lot of inbetweens are not needed anymore and they are the ones who are crying out loud. Well, my heart bleeds for them and for the music agents and for every worker replaced by a robot and for all those expert makers of horse chariots and... Maybe it is not a good thing but it cannot be stopped.
I know one thing: if I could somehow pay $9.99 for an e-book where $5 would go to the author and the rest to Amazon to cover less creative work (editing, formatting, marketing, distribution,...), the author would get more then (s)he gets now. Same goes about music.
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