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Originally Posted by HarryT
No. He gives his eBooks away free as a means of SELLING paper books. If he wasn't selling the paper books, he couldn't make a living by giving away the eBooks.
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Well, you said "unless he actually made his living by selling paper books," which implies that he didn't make a living selling paper books. But I'm not gonna nitpick. I know what you mean.
Still, a lot of people who read his works buy his paper backs and donate them to libraries. So they are willing to pay for his work, even if they don't want a physical copy. As far as the percentage of his readers that do that, well, who knows.