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Originally Posted by edbro
It is simple, if you want books from professional writers, you should pay them, hence the term "professional". I don't expect quality writers, such as Grisham, Conroy, King, etc to sit at a word processor and write 10 hour/day and just give all of it away. I don't work for free and they shouldn't either.
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I don't want to attempt to speak for others, but I think both MoeJoe and Randolphlalonde both get it, but are having trouble understanding one another. I don't hear MoeJoe saying that authors
shouldn't be compensated, but that under the current system they are
unlikely to be compensated appropriately, because digital copies have made our previous rules and metaphors inadequate. And I hear Randolphlalonde saying that he's doing his best to play fair within the current reality, offering his books for a decent price with no DRM, which is just what the mob with pitchforks are calling for.
So let's all stop arguing on their behalf, ok?
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
To fix the geographic distribution idiocy, we just need a ruling that says "the store is selling from its location, and is bound by laws addressing that location, regardless of where the buyer is sitting at time of purchase."
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I could live with that. Even though it would likely mean I'd have to pay sales tax (unless the ebook stores all move their offices and servers to my home state of New Hampshire, which has no sales tax).