At 6:51 PM -0600 on 10/9/02, John Kyle wrote:
> If I spend the next 6 months in my > attic writing a sequel to Atlas Shrugged, and the moment I begin to sell > them someone posts the entire thing to the internet and everyone downloads > it for free, where is the justice in that? It's not "justice". It's foolishness. It's what you get for not auctioning that content off to the highest bidder, over, and over, and over, until the bid price is cheaper than your cost of storage. I expect that if you did that, you'd make more than the average book advance, which is what most authors end up with, and, probably, *way* much more, if people want what you're selling. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
