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Old 08-01-2010, 11:33 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by sassanik View Post
I question how many sales are lost through piracy. I am not saying that there are not lost sales. I simply question how many people who download pirated ebooks actually read them and how many would have bought them in different circumstances.


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Not ebooks specifically, but the only independent (ie not entertainment industry funded) research that has ever been carried out said that people who download unauthorised content spend 20% more on legitimate digital content than people who don't download.

So that would suggest that piracy has a positive impact on profits, not a negative one. Which makes sense if you think about it. People who only download things because they are free were never going to buy it anyway, and it serves as a free sample/advert for people who download things to see if they like them or not.
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