Re:Just shows why there aren't any great authors (Score 1)

Yes, but art doesn't pay the rent. (I get the feeling that you're a troll, but i'm new here, so i'll roll with it...) Do you program for the sheer sake of programming? Or do X for the sheer sake of X? (Insert your occupation -- something that you are *presently* doing in as X.) Yeah, sure, sometimes you do. Sometimes you just have to code/write/look at the stars/calculate the national deficit. But if you want to be good at anything, it takes time. And no, you shouldn't earn money while you practice to get good -- but once you are good, and people enjoy your work, you should expect some recompense. If you programmed all day, every day, and no one ever paid you for it...well, you'd starve to death, 'cause love doesn't pay the bills. If a writer lives to be read, and Amazon stops that writer from making money -- the equivalent of being published at all, because publishers aren't in it for the "art" -- then what are they supposed to do? Scrawl novels in crayon on toilet paper and hand it out in envelopes? I don't mind used books after a six-month (perhaps even three month) leeway preiod (please see my other thread on the topic) but a book's intial run is its entire chance to make $, and contribute to an authors career. If Amazon nips that in the bud, then people who live to be read, and still write, won't be bought, or published and they'll die anyway :P.
Erin Cashier Denton
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