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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
I fail to see how marketing your book to people that don't pay for things will benefit the author in the long run.
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Really? Independent research says that unauthorised downloaders spend 4 times as much on legitimate digital content than non-downloaders. And with them being 10% of the population worldwide, that's a big section of the market you would be cutting yourself off from.
With so many ebooks to choose from I doubt there will be many people who still buy titles from writers they are not already familiar with, unless it's a zero-risk proposition. I know I don't. Even in the paper days the only way anyone would make it onto my buy list was via a 2nd hand paperback for next to nothing.
Plus the pirate sites always seem to occupy the top few listings in a Google search for any type of book you care to look for, so if nothing else it's a good way of getting your name noticed by the people who do pay for content.