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Originally Posted by stonetools

... I get the impression from you that publishers are 100 per cent focused on piracy and do little marketing ...

You are mistaken; had you taken the trouble to actually read my posts you would have realised.

Originally Posted by stonetools

... I get the impression from you that publishers are 100 per cent focused on piracy and do little marketing. I think its precisely the reverse ...

Oh, really? So, publishers are 100 percent focused on marketing, therefore zero percent on piracy, consequently presumably DRM and geo-restrictions are dreamt up by authors, or is it the fairies?

Originally Posted by stonetools

... Every single day, I get emails from Amazon, B&N, Borders, and Kobo touting some promotion or sale (Maybe you need to sign up for the newsletters?) THere is an entire forum here dedicated to keeping track of various freebies and ebook promos offered by publishers and booksellers.
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Had you read my post (the one you quoted!) and you'd have seen that I already receive e-mails from at least one publisher, no I don't need more junk mail, and yes I was already aware of the forum dedicated to freebies and promos - which by the way mostly seems to be aimed at Kindle owners - thank you.

Originally Posted by stonetools

... Google " author's book tours"-who do you think pays for those-pirate sites? The plain fact is that pirate sites don't pay for anything and don't help the authors and publishers. They are to the publishing industry as leeches and tapeworms are to a healthy human being. Just as we would not ignore leeches and tapeworms if we had them, so too the publishers cannot ignore pirates, as to you seem to advocate . On the contrary, the publishers have the right, duty, and contractual obligation to preserve, protect and defend the IP rights of the authors they represent. That means taking action against pirates, in addition to marketing.

Had you bothered to read my posts you'd know that I have not suggested publishers ignore pirates. Presumably you just don't get it, or you're playing games, either way I can't be bothered to repeat what I've already written. This is just too tedious and I'm bored by it.

I'm not at all persuaded by your arguments, so the publisher(s) that you represent - if that's the case - will just have to continue doing without my business. When I buy e-books, it'll be from sources such as BeWrite Books, O'Reilly Books, Baen Books, Smashwords, and so on.