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Originally Posted by leebase
While it's true that "every pirated copy does not equate to a lost sale" -- it is NOT true that "pirated copies never result in lost sales".
A person who pirates an ebook could have bought the book (ebook or otherwise).
Of course -- there are those who buy a book and then aquire an ebook to read when an ebook is not legitimately available just because they prefer to read ebooks. I would not consider that piracy.
Lee
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There are also people who buy other ebooks as a direct result of downloading one for free, or on recommendation from someone who has done so. But the vast majority of downloaders are just collecting files that they will never read. If their free source was cut off somehow, at best they would just buy one of the compilations of second hand ebooks that people sell on Ebay and elsewhere.