[weimerica]

I suppose destroying revenue streams is a way of phrasing the “issue,” but at the end of the day we’re just further democratizing content.

If consumers don’t want $REAL_AUTHOR and so she loses money, that’s her failing to adapt to the market. I don't feel that gatekeepers creating artificial scarcity is a good thing.

[ggm]

Absent literacy programs and market growth in non English speaking economies, we're fully literate and read as much as we want. So making 100x supply side choice isn't actually "good" except to reduce income per author because in the end I only have 24h per day to read in. I can't read more. There's a disequilibrium here. Sure, choice. But the net effect is Amazon got richer and most authors and publishers lost out.