[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why would Baen not exist w/o copyright and why is it helping so much now?
Because any random person could take the text and publish it without compensating the author. Even though the book is free to read, it is not free to copy commercially.
Without copyright, the author and publisher would hang onto the book until the very last minute and suddenly blast out all the copies and then never publish another copy.
Look at what has happened to the game software industry because of that mentality. Games get 99% of their revenue from the initial push and almost nothing thereafter. It tends to suck the creativity and diversity out of the ecosystem.
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