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It is really thought-provoking ^^

One thing I would say about free content is that it usually isn't free in the sense of not giving anything back to them. Take Kindle Unlimited. If you read a Kindle book for free through that platform, the author still gets paid for each page you read. I actually tend to get more money that way from my ebooks than from people buying them.

If you read something that is free-free, rather than enrolled in a program like that, you still give them views and reads which do usually translate into money. For example, each read will shoot a book higher in Amazon's algorithm and therefore give the author more promotion to others. The more visits a website gets, the more profit can be made on adverts and paid placements.

If you were to find a book on a "free to a good home" book shelf, that would be another matter. Now the author doesn't benefit at all. So in that case it wouldn't be morally wrong for you to consume it if you disagreed with the author.

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Posted: Apr 21st, '18, 13:47

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it took me about an hour to formulate those questions too XD

the question is then, is it morally right to benefit from reading a book written by an author you don't want to support. because if you care about their views when it's paid but don't care if it's free, it kind of looks strange too: I want to distance myself from the creator but I don't mind if the stuff is free.

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Posted: Apr 21st, '18, 15:30

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I read and enjoyed Mists of Avalon even after I found out about the author's child abuse. If she was still alive and profiting off the books, then I wouldn't want to buy them new. But now that she's dead and the profits get donated, I'm ok with buying new or used.

I've been reading a lot lately!

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Posted: Apr 21st, '18, 15:34

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I don't think there's a right or a wrong answer here. It's such a grey area that it's hard to find a solution that answers everything. One example might be very different than another example even if you're asking the exact same question.

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Posted: Apr 21st, '18, 17:37

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yea I agree

for some reason it feels like I have to allow myself to distance the work from the author but like Ghost said one may research a creator and never find out that something's wrong with them

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Posted: Apr 21st, '18, 17:45

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It's true, you can never truly know. Some authors aren't even real. My own pseudonym for example XD And one author I liked, I found out it's actually two people who work together under an assumed name. So just because you've read about someone, or even seen them, it could actually be a made-up person played by an actor.

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Posted: Apr 21st, '18, 19:18

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Yeah, I don't think there is a right or wrong answer, and I think it can vary from thing to thing.

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Posted: Apr 26th, '18, 16:17

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Welp, I just read a book!

A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning

Pretty easy read, especially seeing as i've watched the movie many times and it seems to follow the book so closely they basically used it as the script. It surprised me how similar it was, actually. I thought I usually hear people saying the movie didn't follow the books as much as they wanted, but, then again, the movie was based on the first three and i've only read the first one.

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Posted: Apr 26th, '18, 19:31

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That's on my to read list!

I started reading a manga called Yona of the Dawn.

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Posted: Apr 26th, '18, 22:40

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I'm on the last three days of my kindle unlimited before it runs out. Kinda scared now about the book I'm partway through D: I hope it doesn't cut off before I finish.

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