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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is almost *never* about the writer becoming rich.

[b]It's about paper, printing, binding, and shipping. Inflexible costs. [/b]Recently f--ed even further by Trump's dumb tariffs.

Also: [b]do you really think content should be free? [/b]Do you have any idea of how long it takes to compose and edit a decent book that isn't a piece of self-published trash?[/quote]

No, none of those things really cost that much. In fact the cost for printing dropped dramatically. And tariffs have nothing to do with it. Printing costs dropped many years ago.

And the free content comment made me laugh.  I think it's called the Internet. Look into it sometimes. Lots of free content. [/quote]

Much of the good content on the internet is not, in fact, free. Our unwillingness to recognize that content doesn't just create itself out of thin air, that people create it and they need to make a living, is leading to the death of journalism. I say this as the wife of a laid-off journalist. Lots of great content is behind a paywall that you should pay for rather than try to get around and hack (I'm looking at you, person who uses 4 different browsers to evade the WaPo free article limit). Other content is paid for by ad revenue, but online advertising doesn't pay as much as people thought it would, and the model of ads for content is failing. If you think there SHOULD be high-quality, unbiased content out there...find a way to pay your way.[/quote]

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