I think your argument is confused here.
The question of whether we evaluate literature based on how it sells, and how much is paid for it, and the question of how to support authors so that they can write good books for us without having an independent fortune are separate, and you are tying them together in a way which I think is unfair to both.
Until there is some separate way of funding writing, you cannot use that argument in favour of pirating books.
The question of whether we evaluate literature based on how it sells, and how much is paid for it, and the question of how to support authors so that they can write good books for us without having an independent fortune are separate, and you are tying them together in a way which I think is unfair to both.
Until there is some separate way of funding writing, you cannot use that argument in favour of pirating books.
My argument is merely that before literature became a commodity, or something where the perceived value is tied directly to buying/selling, pirating of the scale seen today would have been odd, not to say conceived of in such terms. I just decided to tack on a social commentary onto that. I certainly do not favor pirating books, which is an odd conclusion from what I wrote.
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E-books, piracy, and the commodification of literature
- 08/12/2010 02:31:00 AM
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So we shouldn't just hook up writers to huge hamster wheels and force them to write and run?
- 08/12/2010 04:58:16 AM
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I agree with most of what you say, Tom
- 09/12/2010 03:16:48 AM
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Let us say "materialistic culture".
- 09/12/2010 03:30:39 AM
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That'll work
- 09/12/2010 03:41:18 AM
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I think that the idea of "the commodification of literature" is one that is flawed
- 08/12/2010 07:53:50 AM
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Discussions of ebook piracy are largely irrelevant until more people use e-readers.
- 08/12/2010 10:41:40 AM
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E-piracy is a symptom, not a cause
- 09/12/2010 03:22:05 AM
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Uhm, or they just want to read and can't afford to spend money on books?
- 10/12/2010 05:56:53 PM
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Re: E-books, piracy, and the commodification of literature
- 09/12/2010 03:46:39 AM
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I think you are conflating the text and the book.
- 11/12/2010 05:04:37 PM
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That's not my argument at all
- 11/12/2010 08:13:36 PM
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Sorry...as soon as you said you injected Marxist ideas into it I had to stop reading...otherwise
- 19/12/2010 06:10:12 AM
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