I'm afraid it is, in the same way that a customized, hand-forged item is, in fact, atoms. It can be copied like data, it can be transmitted like data. All of the economic and technological forces that work on data work on it, in the same way that mass-production changes the economics of blacksmithing.
I really must emphasize once again that I am not talking about what should be. I am not arguing here that one model is better than the other, or that one it more moral than the other. I am just looking at what I see to be historical inevitability and trying to draw some conclusions. Nowhere did I say authors shouldn't be paid, or don't deserve it, only that I think it will be increasingly less common over the next few decades. Sad, yes, and obviously very personal to you and many others. Business models being invalidated by changes in technology often are.
I see now that the snark I used in the "content creation" section, aimed at the argument that the only way to encourage creative expression is with financial rewards, has been misread to think I was attacking financial rewards for writing in general. This is emphatically not the case and for that I apologize.
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I really must emphasize once again that I am not talking about what should be. I am not arguing here that one model is better than the other, or that one it more moral than the other. I am just looking at what I see to be historical inevitability and trying to draw some conclusions. Nowhere did I say authors shouldn't be paid, or don't deserve it, only that I think it will be increasingly less common over the next few decades. Sad, yes, and obviously very personal to you and many others. Business models being invalidated by changes in technology often are.
I see now that the snark I used in the "content creation" section, aimed at the argument that the only way to encourage creative expression is with financial rewards, has been misread to think I was attacking financial rewards for writing in general. This is emphatically not the case and for that I apologize.