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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
I am confused here; I did not read anywhere in those posts this;
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Statements along those lines (in other words, not saying this specifically but clearly implying it) have been made in many of the threads where e-book piracy and worth has been discussed.
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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
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.
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What I'm worried about is trying to sell a product in an atmosphere where society believes they do not have to pay for my work, and thus
all of it is pirated.
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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
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.
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Actually, I myself saw literally thousands of downloads of my free short story collection, "The Onuissance Cells," while seeing sales of my books struggle to reach 3 digits, over the past 2 years. And with me being relatively unknown, at that. So this, at least, is true.