[marvindanig]

OP here. This is a very nice actionable feedback. Thank you for taking the time to write it!

My pinning to Bandcamp's business model was purely from royalty sharing/transparency standpoint. Clearly it isn't quite spot-on and causing some confusion in the community.

The broad footer on profile pages will progress downwards as the user builds more work on the top, but I will definitely rethink its colors to make it less conspicuous initially.

At this point we're almost like a manual sweatshop publisher and we get involved with the writers directly to adapt their book(s) on web. I don't think we'll be in a position where we'll do what thousands of other websites are already doing i.e. force people to download files (or skip) and hope that those files will be opened and read somewhere someday.

It doesn't help the cause of an ordinary user (following simple Priority of Constituents here) and the general idea is that if the book is not on web, it's not accessible by default.