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> You can publish a book and give it away freely.

> But few do.

Are you kidding? It's true that few people do this in the same sense that it's true that few people publish books at all, whether they give them away freely or not.

But far more people publish books and give them away freely than publish books and offer them for money. Remember Livejournal?




See also: the entirety of human history before copyright.




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