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...there are people who will take stuff for free, if they want it and don't think they'll be punished, and can get it easily, rather than pay for it, and who would give in and pay for it if they can't.
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In my experience, there are very few of those people. There are people who will take things for free but not pay for them, and there are people who will pay for them because it's the right thing to do, but by and large, there's little overlap between the categories. There is some, certainly, as there is with everything. But when the sales of a book are very small (and in the case of most indie ebooks, they are) the number of people who obtain illicit copies who would otherwise pay for the book is extremely small. In general, if they have to pay, they don't want it.
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Hm? What's the story with those two?
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Anne Rice and Laurell K. Hamilton are notable for having very over-the-top, very public meltdowns in print. They, um, well, let's say they wrote things that I would not want to be remembered for writing. Especially the part where LKH says her characters are her imaginary friends (that's why she won't kill off any) and she buys them presents.