@rechelon @jindra @whatanerd @hakan_geijer I think also one of the things that I think is necessary in these debates - because there is a genuine conflict of interest between creators who make very little money, and *every* step of book production costs money, not simply the writing part (there's also copyediting, page design, indexing, plenty of other costs along the way, and ensuring that information is freely available - is to ask what other models could we find that could ensure that creators get paid while also readers don't face a financial barrier to the book they want to read