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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
No one is trying to restrict 75% (or whatever the figure really is) who legally borrow books, I presume mostly from public libraries.
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75% of readers don't borrow from libraries. They borrow from friends; they buy used; they are given someone else's finished copy. These options don't legitimately exist for most ebooks, and from the reader's perspective, it seems that authors don't want fans; they want customers.
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What some are trying to do is to tell the 25% percent, that they can, without guilt, grab the book illegally and keep it permanently.
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Giggles is trying to claim that. The rest of us are trying to figure out how literary culture can continue--how it can work at all--if the way the majority of books have been read for centuries is removed in the ebook system.
What's the ebook solution for the 75% of paper readers who never directly supported a specific author with income? Should they just ignore that author's works? Do authors believe that a readerbase 1/4 the size they'd get for print will support them?