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Originally Posted by Janette55
As for the Giggleton,
If a store was to offer you a free suit, would you seek to contact the designer, those who made the suit, the manager and clerks of the store and offer to pay them?
So, no, if the book was offered to me for free, I would take it. I have attended a weekend retreat with authors and readers (me being a reader) and was given several books for free. I didn't offer to pay for them and even asked them to sign the books for me. They are freely giving the book away, and so I am under no obligation to pay for it.
Now, such places as ManyBooks offer books free, asking for donations, as does Calibre in asking for support. And I have and will give to them, but I do not HAVE to. It is only decent that I do so, but not legally required; morally but not legal.
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We are talking about books here, not suits, not music, BOOKS and by extension the books creator and the food required to sustain that creator while they write the books.
I suppose I am specifically interested in new books, as in about to be published. And determining how to go about flowing the monies from the reader to the author in a copyright free world. It is inevitable that copyright will be abandoned, in these coming times it will be up to the individual to make the decisions concerning which texts/ideas they wish to support monetarily, thus with their donations popularizing ideas. If the market is the great equalizer, then we should let the market decide which text is more equal than others should we not? By letting the texts flow freely, the money will flow ever more freely.
