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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
Why would one want the 'professional' authors to carry on writing for money? That influences their way of writing, they choose to write books that will sell better, and not ones they would want to write. If they want to write something, let it be something they'd like the world to read - otherwise publishing industry is just the old patronage model again, with author appeasing the public this time.
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Many of the greatest writers in history have "written for money": those dreadful hack writers Shakespeare and Dickens, to name but two. You make it sound as if there's something
wrong with writers producing work that readers will want to read!