err, i put that badly..that the entire argument is about ten bucks being too low, when it doesn't even approach what i'm willing to pay for a digital file.
moral of the story is that i've got no issue with paying authors who's work i enjoy, when they figure out how to get it to me in a way i want at a price i can live with.
i was never a sale before, authors get nothing from used book sales. figure out how to monetize MY needs, and i'd be happy to sign on. I'm happy to pay for netflix for example. Even bought stock last year when quickster dropped their price down cheap enough that i could get in.
I tend to source a lot of my new books via torrent sites. I'm not going to apologize for it. I don't buy books new, at a book a day habit i haunted used book stores, and used the library.
Now here's the problem, i've moved over to reading mostly on my kindle. I can't open up the library website and get a copy of a new book. I can reserve it, make the drive down there, and be forced to read it on dead tree, but i can't have it on my preffered platform.
I try to feel bad about it, but from my end the consumer experience is about the same, except via my computer i don't have to go to the library, or haul around some rented property fearing constantly that the kids will spill orange juice on it.
I love authors, i love supporting authors, but i'm not going to pay more than new paperback price for a file i'll likely delete the moment i'm done with it. I'll pirate that shit, read it how and where i like, then buy them a drink when i meet them at a con sometime.
So why not use dead tree? I've spent my entire life, when i go somewhere, having to plan ahead how many books the trip was likely to be, hell for vacations i tended to need a seperate bag. That's gone. I can carry my entire library and have room for a few thousand more, why would i ever choose dead tree over that?
I'd be happy in most cases to kick in a buck or two for a digital download, if i knew it was going directly to the author. But i'm not paying more to keep gatekeepers on life support.
You know the worst feeling in the world for a pirate?
You pirate a game, it's buggy as shit. (fallout 3 for example). But you love the game. So you go ahead and buy it, thinking that the bugs are from a bad crack.
You begin playing your 60 dollar love child and discover the gamebreaking bugs weren't from the crack, it just shipped broken.
Guess who doesn't give that company any more money?
justify it? that's just business as usual. there'll be no justification because 90% of cases never go to a jurt, they overcharge you, tell you if you force a jury trial and lose they'll give you decades, but if you just plea out to a lesser everyone goes home early.
Then they get you for violating probation and you spend the next ten years being milked for fines and fees and in and out of custody.
lets not get distracted. he answered ten bloody questions with standard media intern politiflac, he didn't really need to plant anyone since they pick and choose which ones will be answered anyway.
no, i only mock motherfuckers who have their heads buried deeply enough in the sand to think you'll be able to filter ANYTHING from a generation that grows up as digital natives. man, are they in for the shock of their motherfucking lives.
i remember the panic and confusion at pizza hut anytime the credit card machine was down and they had to write someone a receipt on actual carbon paper..
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i was never a sale before, authors get nothing from used book sales. figure out how to monetize MY needs, and i'd be happy to sign on. I'm happy to pay for netflix for example. Even bought stock last year when quickster dropped their price down cheap enough that i could get in.
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I tend to source a lot of my new books via torrent sites. I'm not going to apologize for it. I don't buy books new, at a book a day habit i haunted used book stores, and used the library.
Now here's the problem, i've moved over to reading mostly on my kindle. I can't open up the library website and get a copy of a new book. I can reserve it, make the drive down there, and be forced to read it on dead tree, but i can't have it on my preffered platform.
I try to feel bad about it, but from my end the consumer experience is about the same, except via my computer i don't have to go to the library, or haul around some rented property fearing constantly that the kids will spill orange juice on it.
I love authors, i love supporting authors, but i'm not going to pay more than new paperback price for a file i'll likely delete the moment i'm done with it. I'll pirate that shit, read it how and where i like, then buy them a drink when i meet them at a con sometime.
So why not use dead tree? I've spent my entire life, when i go somewhere, having to plan ahead how many books the trip was likely to be, hell for vacations i tended to need a seperate bag. That's gone. I can carry my entire library and have room for a few thousand more, why would i ever choose dead tree over that?
I'd be happy in most cases to kick in a buck or two for a digital download, if i knew it was going directly to the author. But i'm not paying more to keep gatekeepers on life support.
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no. no there are not any good government granted monopolies.
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apologies.
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(until it can be scrapped)
period. fixed that for you.
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You pirate a game, it's buggy as shit. (fallout 3 for example). But you love the game. So you go ahead and buy it, thinking that the bugs are from a bad crack.
You begin playing your 60 dollar love child and discover the gamebreaking bugs weren't from the crack, it just shipped broken.
Guess who doesn't give that company any more money?
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Then they get you for violating probation and you spend the next ten years being milked for fines and fees and in and out of custody.
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