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Originally Posted by ficbot
But I don't think you *have* illustrated it. If your book is in a torrent with a thousand other books by 'name' authors, how do we know that the downloader wasn't really interested in them? How do we know that any of the downloaders have even heard of you? Do you have ANY numbers for torrents containing only your books?
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I am
ignoring the efforts to which you and others have gone to marginalize and trivialize me with this line of thought (
), and will politely retort that if someone saw fit to include one (or any) of my books in a torrent, that makes them just as significant as any other single book in the file. Your logic essentially dismisses every single book that isn't the most popular book in the file; I say they are all equal, as "popularity" isn't the same for all people.
So, there.
And as to the last question: That's the entire point. No, I don't have numbers.
No one has numbers! No one
will ever have numbers! Why talk about numbers we will never have?
Hmm... we still don't seem to be getting anywhere with this. I suppose this was the wrong place to bring my disagreement with the numbers premise, so maybe I'll just bow out and leave it to the rest of you...