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Old 02-09-2011, 03:26 PM   #540
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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
Considering how popular James Patterson is, are you suggesting that the amount of piracy is nothing like what we speculate here? 500 James Pattersons a month on the "worldwide" web sounds to me like a drop in the bucket.
They will be downloaded in other places as well, but I don't think all those other downloads put together will double those figures. What you also need to consider is how many of those people who downloaded them actually read them. Impossible to guess, but in percentage terms it is likely to be in single figures.

The only one I could find that was anywhere near 100,000 downloads was the Harry Potter books, and that has been up since 2006.
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