I wonder whether he looked for pirate copies before he sent out the pdf. One thing he doesn't mention is whether what he found online was the pdf as he emailed it... As it is we have a report of two quite possibly unrelated events: pirate copies and blind people. As we all know, lack of a pdf from the author does not seem to hinder the production of pirate copies of books.
A second possibility is that demand for his books is so low that without a zero-effort pirate copy being available no-one had ever bothered to produce one. I know there are a lot of authors who I personally would never bother to rip their work. It's just not worth the effort.
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