Musicians have emphatically not survived digital piracy. But at least they have another avenue for possibly generating income: live performance. Authors? Who g

Musicians have emphatically not survived digital piracy. But at least they have another avenue for possibly generating income: live performance. Authors? Who goes to a live reading? Lastly, you will not benefit from book piracy if you destroy an author's ability to survive by writing books. That's why I wrote: Tragedy of the Commons. I was careful to write about authors, not publishers. Pirating a self-published author is ethically wrong.