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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
No... it leads publishers to believe that they cannot make a profit from that book, because it has been pirated, and they will subsequently not release it. (This is not necessarily true, in fact, but true or not, it is the perception on the publisher's part.)
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Publishers ought to be savvy enough to realize that there are a large number of potential customers who won't get the pirated copy -- either because they don't know how or because they believe it's wrong to take a pirated copy.
Deciding not to produce a legitimate version simply because someone has a pirate version is wrong. Do you think that motion picture companies are refusing to produce DVDs for the Chinese market just because pirated copies are available?