Lost sales can be the fault of the publisher. if you go to an online eBook site and see an eBook in a series that you want has just been released and it's book 3 but books 1 & 2 are not available at all, you may not be purchasing book 3. What might happen is you'll go hit up the darknet to find 1 & 2 and also see maybe if 3 is available as well. Now if 1-3 has all been available, you would have purchased them. When publishers do a 1/2 assed job, it can and often does drive people to the darknet.
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