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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
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.
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I'm not sure you're right about that. I have friends who pirate games, and they typically do exactly what I described, only going into the video game category instead. They don't keep up with new releases and only know about games when they start seeing them on their favorite torrent site's list. I imagine there are plenty of book torrenters who do the same. The only way it is worse than a retail site is because you can't sort by genre.
I'm not saying Gaiman's blanket statement is correct. I'm of the opinion that almost all blanket statements are usually incorrect, but to say that someone can't discover new titles on a torrent site is untrue.