I am fully aware that compensating people per copy sold is a deeply imperfect way of compensating labor (just like playing a live show doesn't become more work the more people buy tickets, or for that matter waiting a table becomes harder if they order more expensive food)
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And this is offset by the publishers' deep distrust of ebooks as being a source of piracy (despite the best efforts of DRM in the marketplace), meaning the "multiplier" attached to an ebook of "How many people will actually read the book for every 1,000 copies sold" is *higher*
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This also seems perverse to people because of "restrictive" ebook licenses -- where if you, personally, are good and law-abiding and don't rip your ebook, your ebook copy seems far less convenient to you than a physical book would be But it's in fact true
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Maybe that's true, my point was mainly that people, *correctly*, don't perceive the price of either edition of a book as mainly going to paying for the author's time and labor at all.
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And that whatever savings the publisher makes on ebook production and does not pass on to the customer - even if those are perceived to be higher than they are, it's not like it's zero - is pure profit for the publisher that doesn't benefit the author at all.
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