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Most "serious writers" make a living as a direct result of book sales.
What? Like the retarded TV personalities that write books extolling the virtues of bullshit like homeopathic "medicine"? Or the people who write books on astrology? Please.
fiction
Ah, fictional subjects. Any good book on that is automatically in the public domain, so that's a moot issue.
The rest of your post was exceedingly retarded.
Apparently you've never heard of DRM and the companies that hound people over "intellectual property" rights. My library on paper will still be around in a 100 years time. I cannot say the same for a portable ebook reader, especially its data.