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Old 06-03-2010, 06:26 AM   #142
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
Now there is a new concept -- authors have bills to pay! Do they actually eat and drink like regular people? And let me propose another radical new idea. Those that download their books actually pay something to help the authors instead of just thinking of saving themselves a few bucks?

I know it sounds crazy, just a silly idea. After all, the author probably just wrote it on a wordprocessor and all he or she did was create a series of 0s and 1s. How can that be worth anything?
I bet people said the same thing when public libraries were first introduced. After alll, why would people pay for books when they could read them for free? All the writers and their pet kittens would starve, and nobody would ever bother writing books again.
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