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Originally Posted by queentess
It was actually a pretty reasonable article, grammar mistakes aside. He was saying that a torrent could be valued at as much as $10,000. Which is true, if you look the selling price of each book. But he then counters that by saying that people won't read every book.
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One point no one seems to ever mention is that even if someone downloads the torrent and reads the book there is not guarantee that the downloader would have ever purchased the book in the first palce. This is the same assumption the music labels made. The files are easily downloaded and then used, this doesn't mean a sale was lost. What it really means is someone that never would have bought the book or music may now read or listen to it and then talk about it possibly leading to actual sales!
I'm not condoning piracy but I don't count every download as a lost sale either. Could be that David Carnoy sucks as a writer and just doesn't sell many books. His article isn't helping disprove that.