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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Your definition of whether it's a good time or a bad time to be an author seems predicated on whether or not you can make a reasonable amount of money writing.
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It's not the only criteria (or even my only criteria, though obviously most of the responders have latched onto that), but for any writer who would like to make a reasonable amount of money writing, it is a valid one, and worth weighing to answer the question.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
You seem to want laws to stop the shrinkage. Question, why is stopping the shrinkage for writers more important than accountants, engineers, and computer programmers. (Or paralegals and non-partner lawyers)?
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Not exactly: I'd like laws to level the playing field and better prevent IP theft... not the same thing. Nowhere have I said that we must stop the bad economy from shrinking the purses of authors, nor that authors are more important than any other group. If authors make less because the economy is bad... oh well. But if authors are making less because their property is being stolen in larger degrees... that is something to address.