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Originally Posted by tompe
You need to do real studies. The people you are interested in influencing is the people that want to read a book and then downloads it illegally for convenience reasons or other for them reasonable reasons.
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That may be so, but when I offer a book for
a third or less what the average paperback book costs... when it can be downloaded from my site,
in 6 different formats, the moment it is purchased... and consumers
still post my books on Darknet and others take them... how much more "convenient" or "reasonable" do you want it to be? 'Cause I'm not taking them door-to-door.
Since I'm one guy in the suburbs who works for a living, my studies are
here: Initiating, participating in, and taking information from websites like this, and people like you. The message I'm getting from my "studies" is pretty clear, too: Unless I become blisteringly famous and can wrangle a deal with some big-name advertiser, this field will never make me more than lunch money, and eventually, I will give it up when I need to get a job that does pay.
Because, between people who want a free ride, people who like defying authority, and people who are just plain crooks, this field will never amount to anything for most of the guys outside of the publishing castle... they'll be hacked to bits unless they can get on the inside track. I have yet to see or hear anything to convince me otherwise, nor have I heard much encouragement that there is a way that works, other than "just being reeeally, reeeealllly nice to us."
Meh.
We're all trying to find a way to help this market grow and prosper. So far, nothing we're doing is doing much good. Amazon's done more with one device than all of our posts and threads, multiplied by the number of other sites that engage in similar discussions, combined.
I hope that worries some of you as much as it worries me. Of course, I know it doesn't worry some of you at all... so be it. But it's worth thinking about if we're accomplishing anything other than to hear ourselves talk.
And speaking of which: Rant over. I guess there's no more to be learned from this discussion, anyway.