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Originally Posted by kennyc
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I read a preliminary study on this and the general conclusion was that pirating raised the sales of midlist authors but cut into sales of bestselling authors, which makes sense because I'd think any surge in sales would be due to exposure to readers who hadn't tried the authors before, and bestselling authors already have that. In that case, piracy could be viewed as a playing a similar role to library loans.
FTR I have never intentionally downloaded anything illegally. I do haunt the freebies list though
As for Agency pricing--I mostly buy backlist and midlist and romance and I don't usually find the pricing too high for the traffic to bear under Agency, as these are relatively cheap and Hqn isn't Agency--but I support the right of a retailer to discount, which Agency prevents. I can't even use a farking coupon. And there are, I admit, some books I would willingly pay $5-6 for but wouldn't pay $14.99 for. I put those on my "get from library" list.