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Originally Posted by Xenophon
I strongly support paying for downloaded eBooks, for a very simple reason: Authors who make enough money by writing can afford to write full time. And that means they are able to produce (wait for it...) more good books for me to read. Conversely, authors who don't get money for their books have to get day jobs, which leaves them less time to write, which leads directly to fewer good books for me to read. So if I pay, I get more of what I like, and if I don't pay I get less.
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That would only be relevant if it was a choice between downloading or paying. The choice is really about downloading or not downloading. If your book is downloaded you might gain a reader that you wouldn't otherwise have, but that in itself is a pretty slim chance because you would be in competition with every other book they downloaded. If they do read it they might give it a good review or recommend it to someone else, or they might buy something else you have written. If not, they won't. So everything to gain, nothing to lose.