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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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.
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.
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Regarding the first point, I do not think that we reached that point; people still sell books, e-books, music, and the like; some people make more money, some less, more people are published than ever and so on. I do not think that most people argue about not having to pay, but argue about details, what should they pay for, how much, what for, and other things.
Regarding the second thing - with all due respect legal downloads of freely offered material have nothing to do with piracy. So if people download thousands of something you offered for free but do not buy anything else, has nothing to do with piracy. Many people tend to download free stuff just because it's free but they do not bother to read it. If there would be evidence that one of your novels have been downloaded illegally by 50k people why only 500 paid for it, then yes I would agree, but the argument presented offers no such evidence.