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by vishnugupta 27 days ago
And yet JK Rowling is a billionaire and movies make hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.

So I guess we can have a world in which knowledge can be free without starving knowledge creators?

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Not if you account for just how many authors never reach the pinnacle of breaking even.

Rowling is a rare exception and very much not the norm.