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Old 01-29-2011, 09:25 AM   #62
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Originally Posted by CommonReader View Post
Obviously pirated books do not equal lost sales. However, those people who have downloaded a large number of pirated books do not really have to buy books any more either, unless they are looking for a specific book that isn't available as a pirated copy. Someone who has downloaded e.g. 4,000 books and just 10% of those are books are books he is really interested in, is kept busy reading those books for quite a while.
No they're not, because there will be another 4,000 for them to download the next day, and the day after that. They don't download them to read, so there is no more or no less of a chance that they will still be buying books they do want to read.
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