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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Exactly. I've been fighting a losing battle, so I give up. I'm a loser. On the other hand, I was raised to be able to recognize a fruitless cause.
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Just so I'm clear on what I'm actually arguing here (thanks to a certain person muddying the waters, I'm losing track of who said what), am I correct in understanding that you believe these losses are due to piracy? That is, if ebook piracy did not exist, you would be making substantially more money?
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Considering my current losses have been in the negative hundreds each year (not counting the value of my time spent actually writing... we'll put that at a few thousand), moving my results to $0.00 would be an improvement
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This is a very intrusive question, and I apologize in advance (feel free to slap me if you don't want to answer) but I'm going to ask anyway: For clearer discussion (and perhaps even a solution that works for you, though no promises) how many sales, roughly, have you had in the past year, how much profit per sale, and what have your expenses been, by category and approximate amount? I'm not asking for something that would satisfy the taxman, just a rough estimate of where the money came from and went to. As I said, I know I'm being downright intrusive asking, but the answers would bring some clarity to this discussion, and give everyone here (including me) some real numbers to work with, rather than vague guesses and analogies.