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> I cannot imagine wanting to write a book if I didn't have some recourse against people distributing my book freely. Your lack of imagination is disappointing
by npsimons 6y ago
> I cannot imagine wanting to write a book if I didn't have some recourse against people distributing my book freely.
Your lack of imagination is disappointing, and also hints at a failure of empathy.
- regulation_d 6y agoThere are so many ways of distributing thought and expression with little to no cost other than the time and effort of the creator. In practice, books almost always require more. I'm struggling to see how using a blog instead, is some sort of "failure of empathy". But I guess the broader point remains, even if only 20% of potential authors are, like me, so evil that they wouldn't devote a year of their lives to writing a book that they couldn't monetize in some way, well that's still represents a 20% decrease in innovation on some level.