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Old 04-15-2011, 08:44 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by neilmarr View Post

Plainly these must have started as scans from the treebook pages. Plainly legitimate sales didn't suffer. I believe, though, JKR is now re-thinking her stance against ebooks and that there's a ready market of HONEST buyers awaiting them with bated breath.
I'm not really convinced there is much overlap between unauthorised downloaders and authorised purchasers. Obviously there is some overlap, otherwise it would be impossible to explain how unauthorised downloaders as a whole spend 4 times as much on legitimate digital content as non-downloaders.

But most downloaders are just file collectors, and most purchasers only buy from the site that supports their device. They're both entirely different markets, and the existence of files in one market has no bearing on the popularity of files in the other.

Look at the Complete Sherlock Holmes collection on Amazon Kindle:

#53 Paid in Kindle Store
#1 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Anthologies
#1 in Books > Fiction > Anthologies
#1 in Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Anthologies
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