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There is perhaps a balance. I recently watched a video about the R4 DS card that allowed for an immense amount of piracy that killed off a shit ton of studios in the process. So maybe a time delay is probably best rather than forever paywall something.
The majority of people who would purchase the product wouldn't really wait. Only after a certain period after release does it make sense to make it public and not require people to pirate. Then again I would imagine that only works with large/popular releases, not so much the smaller creators who would want to make any kind of money they could regardless of the timescale (which is the majority of whom I think the OP is talking about)
The big vs small creator aspect has another angle to it as well though in the idea of exposure. A small creator downloaded by 10,000 may find themselves to be a less small creator due to word of mouth, which actually rather goes to OP's question of helping their cause via awareness. So those that can or would buy the book do, and those who can't/wouldn't still potentially receive the author's message.
An interesting idea for something like a video game, it gets first released on something like steam with locks for a time, and then when the initial hype passes it gets onto GOG with no locks but is still a nice central storefront. Lots of options out there to work with.
I fail to find much a difference between our conclusions in your post. I would imagine I probably came at it from the incorrect angle to think it was a contrary idea to mine, so instead I'll further the thought about still potentially receiving the author's message.
Something I didn't realize until now is that when you publish a pay walled book, in most countries there is a form of copyright, a system that is very akin to the solution that you and I have concluded on. Its something that allows for the progress of general humanity while also providing profit for the author. The real question is this.
How long should a creative or descriptive paywalled work be allowed to be paywalled before it placed into the public domain? In my opinion I think something like 75 years is far too long. Even 20 Years may be too long since now society progresses so fast.
@ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com (and others) What is your opinion on that time?