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I wouldn't expect many creators to start understanding this point. To accept the reality that the demand for new (music / books / newspaper stories) just simply isn't high enough to support very many people making their living that way would be to sacrifice a significant portion of a life's dream or an identity for a lot of people. That's not an easy thing to accept.

That's only half an opinion, though. He's arguing that the bestselling authors give self-published ones the room to charge more. In the "value" scape, he doesn't get to decide how much his book is worth, but wouldn't be able to charge 3.99 or whatever he wants if the norm was 0.99. The actual value is more determinable thanks to the market conditions.

> the fruits of my labors

To me, the value of the fruits of most people's labor are anywhere from zero to some negative number after accounting for the time I will spend reading those "fruits." This is why I don't read every book on the market.