Arthur I've admired your tweets for years but this is embarrassing.
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And people *perceive* that a digital file is "free" (because it's so easy to copy and share, or it feels like it should be) and paying for it is a "tip" It somehow *feels different* to copy a file than to steal an actual book Even though that's total fucking nonsense
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"If I steal a physical book I have deprived someone of its use and that is fundamentally different from copying a file" Bitch the actual dead trees in that book cost like a total of $1 max to physically print in that form You can take as many of the physical objects as you want
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Side note: this right here is why so many of the (then) big 6 teamed up/collided against Amazon ~10 years ago. They were deliberately selling ebooks at prices deemed too low by the industry to move kindles.
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Right, and this reveals the nature of the play, and why calling the Big 6 trad publishers the "capitalists" in this equation misses the point Amazon could have sold the Kindle at a loss, as a loss leader to make money on expensive ebooks
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ok, but, what people *perceive* is the cost *to the publisher* as tied up in the physical book. Yeah, they have to format the ebook files, but they don't need tons of paper and barrels of ink. The real injustice is that the royalty percentage to authors for ebooks isn't higher.
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The total amount of extra actual cost for publishing paper books over ebooks is very low This seems perverse to people, but it's true The total discount would be at most a couple bucks per copy, not the 20/30/50% people seem to think is "fair"
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