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Subject: Re: attn. JMS: A TV writing question...
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 06:43:44 +0000 (UTC)
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

>But honestly, has a library ever had a negative effect on people buying 
>books?  I've read CS Lewis, Stephen King, Jean Auel and others as a kid 
>for free, yet I ended up buying the books later as an adult. 

Unless you had a very different library association than mine, all the books in
the library were purchased by the library, and the writers received royalties.

>For music, 
>has radio had a negative or positive impact?  HBO for movies? 

HBO pays residuals; radio also pays for the rights to broadcast music.

Apples and oranges.

 jms

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