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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
Well, all right. Let's assume the piracy is nonexistent for a moment. You still have competition between people who demand money for their effort, people who create and share the result for free, and public domain books. Would you call this competition an injustice for the ones who want to be paid?
With time, there'll be more and more free creations available, and more and more public domain books. So, piracy or not, sooner or later, there will come a time where overwhelming majority of good books are free. So why would anyone buy new ones then? To keep money-for-creation model feasible, we would have to replace copyright with totalitarian regime that controls all people's actions in the interest of selected few. How does that make sense?
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They will not be free. Are Google's services free? No, you pay for them by giving up your privacy, your data. And Google makes money off your data. The same thing will happen to books. It is NOT free.
And why can't they exist side by side? Maybe we should have a poll. Let people choose. Would they rather have a free book with an ad on every second page or pay a few dollars to have an ad free book?
You may well be right. A lot of people don't care about privacy, a lot of people don't mind to be bombarded with ads everywhere they go 24 hours a day. If that is the majority, then the ad-supported versions will win. But don't tell me it is free.