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anamardoll... neat bit of selective quoting...
The full para you chopped said, "Don't put your interpretation on what other people say, especially when looked at through your ideological glasses... I didn't say that every book should be a purchased one, I said that a free book is a lost sale... it is... it may lead to other sales in the future or it may not but at the instant that a book is acquired for free then it isn't being purchased... simple English... sale = exchange of value (usually money) for item being sold, no exchange then no sale..."
I'm not talking about you and your acquisitions or otherwise your POV... I'm talking about the author's POV...
1: author has book, author gives book to you; you have book, author has nothing in return.
2: author doesn't give you book, you don't have book, author has nothing in return as nothing happened.
3: author sells you book, you give him money, author has money, you have book.
I'm not dealing with future results of freebies etc which is why lost sales is probably the wrong term but is a commonly used simplification... I'm talking about a simple thing... free = nothing for author right now, sale = something for author now...
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