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Originally Posted by PKFFW
And if they dare to admit that they would like to earn their living doing what they love and not have to work some other job then we can demean them by suggesting they are greedy capitalist pigs who should be happy to get a "real job" like the rest of us and create in their spare time if they really want to.
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I don't think anyone is saying they don't have a right to make money from their writing if that is what they wish. But the reality is, they are not going to make it from selling digital books. Not in the long term, at any rate, and certainly not if they insist on giving away 90% of their income just so that someone can upload their books to sales sites for them.
I'm not really convinced that future writers will see free content as the big threat that past and present writers see it as though. Having grown up in a society where digital content is free, and seen how individuals and corporations are making money from free content now, they are more likely to see it as an opportunity. Just like the young musicians and film makers are doing now.