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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Waiting until someone has concrete numbers to go on is an experiment in futility and frustration, and it's ducking the point. This isn't a numbers issue, it's a cultural issue as significant to our era as the shift to treating slaves as people. We don't need data, we need discussion.
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It's very easy for you, as an author, to get an idea of how widespread your book piracy is. Look for all torrents that are for solely one book, authored by you. Compilations don't matter, because people may download the whole thing but only intend to read one or two books. Or none at all.
Now that you've found those single torrent books, look at the number of times it's been successfully downloaded. Many people start a download and never finish. Good, now you've got some number of completed downloads on single book torrents, indicating interest in your book. Contrast that to how many you sold since that torrent was put up.
Some of those sales may be because of trying it out first in torrent form. You may have missed some torrents. But it's fairly easy to get an approximation of pirate action specifically targeting your work.
And yet, these numbers are never published in a logical manner...