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Originally Posted by ficbot
Seriously? Wow, that is some seriously delusional thinking. It amazes me how many authors I have spoken to on boards like this who believe that it is the customer's responsibility to actually campaign for the right to spend more money.
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Not at all. I was responding to the suggestion that someone made that you take the time to send the author a picture of the book and copy of the receipt. I was suggesting that instead of simply pushing the author's head more deeply underwater, you extend the drowning author a helping hand.
I'm trying to help you see what it means to be an author in this day and age. In order to write the books you all want to read, an author needs to immerse themselves in a totally different world, to channel several different personalities and keep them sorted. It's hard enough to balance that with things like doing the dishes, calling the plumber (or doing it yourself because you haven't made enough on the last book to afford a plumber). You add to that getting current with the changes in technology and "do it yourself" publishing, and life gets pretty darn full.
Do I expect people who buy used books to send me anything? Not at all. People apologize all the time for asking me to sign a used book. I just say, thank god it got into the hands of someone who appreciated it.
I consider the whole used book process to be rather like the piracy question: getting my name into the hands of people who might be interested in buying my books.
If you've been following my posts at all, you'll realize I am one of many authors trying to get you your ebooks.