Is it just books that you expect to be free? Or does your advice apply to every song, painting, movie, and program?
You expect every artist, actor, painter, and programmer to make zero $ from anything they create?
You expect every artist, actor, painter, and programmer to make zero $ from anything they create?
Apart from a few notables exceptions, artists have been poor and broken since the dawn of time.
Michelangelo, Mozart, Jeff Koons and Taylor Swift are the exception, not the rule.
It may be hard to imagine, I don't think things would be massively different overall.
Apart from all the millions of people like me (an Indie software developer) that would suddenly have 0 income from their digital products?
Or are you just trolling for a reaction?