From: Michael Greenly Date: 2006-05-17T05:35:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Ticked Off Jacob Fugal wrote: > On 5/16/06, Michael Greenly wrote: >> > provide me simply so you can make a profit. >> >> Charging what the market will bear is simply fair, assuming you're free >> to buy from who you want and I'm free to sell to who I can. > > Then why is is "unethical" for the author of the book to charge what > the market will bear? Why is it not "simply fair" then? Maybe your > argument is that the only price the market will bear for PDF e-books > is free, but that doesn't preclude the author's right and prerogative > to charge more than that. If the market doesn't bear the author's > asking price, then it's the author's loss in that he doesn't make > sales. This doesn't give the "market" the right to take his material > and force it to be "sold" at a lower price. > > Jacob Fugal My argument wasn't that it was unethical for an author to use the systems that society has created it was that society errored in creating this system. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.