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Originally Posted by Fayth
Well, you can easily go to a category, in this case ebooks, and then sort by the most popular, and then choose which one you want based on descriptions... Don't know what place you went to but good torrent sites have search filters.
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Something you can do much better on a retail site. Torrent sites are generally not a shopping experience. You go there with something already in mind.
I don't think organized pirating is a big deal, but let's be honest about cause and effect, here. Like any black market, it is the result of demand, not the creator of it. Some word of mouth may be created, as it is when anything is consumed.
And Gaiman's claim that nobody who downloaded his book would have bought it is all kinds of foolish imo, not only in its absoluteness, but in its ignorance of the level of commitment involved in deciding to read a book.
The fact that Gaiman is a popular writer with an already established reputation, with books that often get headline visibility on retail sites viewable worldwide, makes his assertions even more naive.