tldr; Author gives away work for free, navel gazes in detail about how many people didn't compensate the author, argues that they should because it is in their

tldr; Author gives away work for free, navel gazes in detail about how many people didn't compensate the author, argues that they should because it is in their best interests. I hope I spared someone the bore. Also included, a rant about adblockers and how bad they are for the web. My advice: if you want to see book sales, just put a price on your work. And it's not the only way to benefit from a book, financially or otherwise. Spare the world another boring rant how everybody should adapt to make it easier for content creators to get paid. If the ad industry had any kind of self control, people wouldn't have to go through the trouble of installing an adblocker. But we don't live in such world, so why not move on. Not only does an adblocker spare you from having to see ads you'd never engage with any way (and which would otherwise be wasting away precious seconds of your life) you get faster loading pages that are vastly safer. It's in content creators best interests to find ways to fund their work that are also in the best interests of the reader. The real question is, how to make money providing content. There are many viable answers. Ranting about how people don't behave the desired way is a useless exercise.