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Laser or Sonic Screwdriver?
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06-26-2012, 04:38 PM | #19 |
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06-26-2012, 06:21 PM | #21 |
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Well in your case, it happened because you put them on your website for free and someone bundled them up with thousands of other scifi books they'd acquired from somewhere and then put them all on a pirate site.
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06-26-2012, 08:13 PM | #22 |
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I am not defending this practice, but I know many people to use torrent and other sites to sample things before they buy them. They would in this case read your book, and if they like it buy it (or send you money directly), and if not delete it. The people that do this do it with anything can can be distributed via a torrent: Software, movies, music, and etc. This is more common then you would think.
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06-26-2012, 08:38 PM | #24 |
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I'm not talking about free samples; obviously I don't mind people downloading free material. We're talking about products people are intended to pay for, and you know it.
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06-26-2012, 11:32 PM | #25 |
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06-27-2012, 05:04 AM | #26 |
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Until you get famous enough for people to search for your ebooks by name it's not worth stressing out over. Anyone who chances over it by accident while looking for something else was never going to buy it anyway.
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06-27-2012, 07:00 AM | #27 |
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Mark Cook (that his name, right? ) said it best when he said that piracy was not the biggest problem for the independent author, it was anonymity. I think there is a lot of truth in that.
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To an extent, I can blame the subject matter (serious science fiction is being heavily overshadowed by Star Wars-type space battle sci-fi, and all SF is being overshadowed by romance and urban fantasy) and the prevailing publisher-driven attitude (to wit: Indie authors suck), as well as the above-mentioned lack of word of mouth from satisfied readers to their friends... but let's face it, all that blaming only goes so far. Sooner or later, a carpenter who's good at making chairs looks around his shop, sees a roomful of unsold chairs... and realizes it's time to stop making chairs. That's not to say he has to give up on chair-making; but he needs to stop and figure out how to sell the chairs he's got first. Once that problem is solved, he can go back to making new chairs... or find something else to make. This is where I am right now (and have been for about 2 years now): Trying to figure out how to sell the stories I've already written, before I write any more. Whether or not I'll write another novel is fully dependent on my success in marketing myself. And getting back to the OP, I think this is something every writer should consider when deciding if this field is right for them. In hindsight, I should probably have never started writing, since I've never been a good self-promoter, nor do I have a horde of friends to support me and my work. I wish someone had explained it to me, so I might have gone into some more worthwhile activity and spared myself the hassle of writing. |
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