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Originally Posted by GA Russell
It seems to me that it would not be unreasonable to have a situation where the free pirate edition is loaded with typos while the $2.99 official release is perfect.
In that scenario, I believe that most people would pay the $2.99. But if the eBook is $10.00, I believe that many will choose to tolerate the typos and go for the free edition.
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Doctorow said something like that in his "
Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll" article:
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This is the pattern: doing something x percent as well with less-than-x percent of the resources. A blog may be 10 percent as good at covering the local news as the old, local paper was, but it costs less than 1 percent of what that old local paper cost to put out. A home recording studio and self-promotion may get your album into 30 percent as many hands, but it does so at five percent of what it costs a record label to put out the same recording.
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But this doesn't translate well to ebooks--because, although the pirate-typo version may be more widely available, in time it'll be replaced by the pirate-official version, because unless the typo version is *entirely legal* to distribute and the other is not, there's no reason to hand it around instead of the fixed version.
What prevents some enterprising fan from fixing the typo'd version?