Reply #108: Does not change the fact that being read is still good for him/her

[themadstork]

and may very well lead to them being able to eat.

How much does a writer make by griping about piracy?


My position is not that writers should not write for pay. I certainly do try to get paid. The more I'm paid to write, the more I can write!

What I'm objecting to is using the standard way of thinking about labor-compensatiom to justify backwards ideas on electronic publishing. The "rules" that went with traditional publishing should not necessarily be applied to epublishing. It's a different world; writing exists independently of the written page. This opens up tons of new opportunities, but we'll miss them if we insist that nothing in the world of books should ever change.