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Originally Posted by tompe
The reasoning was that one reader will talk with other readers that will buy the book. So it made perfect sense.
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As reasoning goes, it's a multiple-supposition: That the person who pirated a book will like it enough to recommend it to a friend, AND that the friend will then want the book, AND that they will be willing to go out and pay for it (as opposed to just asking the pirate where he got his, or accepting a copy of the illicit file... as has been pointed out, pirates think nothing of making those files available to others).
This has proven a workable model for TV and radio advertisers, but
so far, it has not been demonstrated as successful for e-books.
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Originally Posted by tompe
And it would be true for e-books also because most people want to pay for things.
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I think we've already established that this is not necessarily the case, with e-books, and with a lot of other things. People pay when they figure they have to, but they'll also take what they can get without paying. Nothing moves a product faster than 2 words associated with it: "Free sample."
Oh, by the way Natch: I laughed. On the inside.