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Originally Posted by mrkai
I didn't see a single author I recognized in the whole of Baen's very small catalog.
I think this is what I'd call a "big tell".
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I don't recognize most of the authors on the
NYT Bestseller List, but evidently
somebody thinks they're worth buying -- even if it's just those who buy what's on that list.
The point of exposure has been made above, obscurity is the great enemy of
every author. I think that the fact that there is little or no piracy of a book on the NYT Bestseller List is pretty remarkable in and of itself. Especially when the book can be purchased as an un-DRMed e-file for a measly six bucks.
That is how I interpret Xenophon's point, anyway.
An interesting comparison point might be to look at the level of piracy on the NYT Bestseller List as a whole (especially the ones that have no e-version at all), if the list is
generally free from piracy, then the whole point is pretty moot.
That being said, I think that another issue is
accesibility, and I think the biggest obstacle there is the tower of e-babel. A single "standard" format that everyone sold in and used would eliminate the vast majority of problems on this point.
