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Would there be anything worth putting into the libraries if intellectual property rights are not respected?
by Worksheet 11mo ago
Would there be anything worth putting into the libraries if intellectual property rights are not respected?
- ForHackernews 11mo ago...yes? The median book sells ~3,000 copies, ever. But people keep writing them!
- yorwba 11mo agoMost libraries probably don't stock many books like that. They'd just waste shelf space until they get discarded in the end.
- delusional 11mo agoI think most authors believe their book to be better than the median. At least when they start writing it.
- wongarsu 11mo agoThere is a lot of writing on the internet that's done for free with no profit motive. Both fiction and nonfiction. Paying the editors is the bigger issue than paying the authors