I'd certainly accept that there isn't a zero-sum game between living and dead authors or between new and second hand books. A quick scan of my own bookcases wou

I'd certainly accept that there isn't a zero-sum game between living and dead authors or between new and second hand books. A quick scan of my own bookcases would make it impossible to argue otherwise. I'm hoping that the increase in the number of bookshops of any kind will increase the number of people who do buy new books by living authors as that is the way we keep authoring as a somewhat viable mode of making a living.