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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
You, for instance, haven't said anything to convince me that I can expect to be fairly compensated for my work, copyright laws or not, since they are only electronic files. And many others have made it clear that they feel no remorse in taking an e-book of mine without paying me a penny for it.
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I am confused here; I did not read anywhere in those posts this;
Personally I think that you should be far, far more worried about people finding out about the books than pirating them, and if somehow there would be large piracy of your books you would also be much better compensated than now for them since there also would be large numbers of people paying for them too.
I heard all these "theoretical" examples of commercial e-books selling 5 copies and being downloaded 100k times. That to me is pure bs (or just wishful thinking of authors wanting to reach that many people). If your book is popular enough that lots of people would download it than also lots of people will buy it.
Again look at which authors are the most pirated and ask yourself, or any author, in which situation they would prefer to be: low piracy, low sales, or high piracy, high sales...
And regarding fair compensation - unfortunately this notion is quite fuzzy for everyone, not only authors; by and large compensation is what the market dictates and many times there is nothing "fair" about; not an optimal way of doing things maybe, but much better than the alternatives as history has shown us repeatedly