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Originally Posted by elcreative
MrsJoseph, Elfwreck etc... I guess we just totally disagree about just about everything... why would I want to download TV series from iTunes or movies... I'm watching less and less TV at the moment and I have access to a large number of channels by satellite, same thing for movies but having so much available just shows up the poor quality and lack of thought in so much broadcast and movie material at the moment... I'm actually watching far more factual material these days...
As far as relating it to books, well I'm simply reading more again... and I'm not a millionaire either but my criteria for buying a book have always been amazingly simple, "Does that book seem like I might enjoy it?" Answer yes then buy it, answer no then don't... short of cash then don't look... if you want to bring your "ideology" into then fine but don't expect everyone else to follow especially...
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...
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You don't have to agree with my opinion, that doesn't bother me at all.
The Dear Author blogs are VERY well researched - so it might not fit you but it does fit a majority of readers.
And a free book - one given away - is NEVER a lost sale. Never. Because if you hadn't given it to me
I would not have purchased it. Period. So how is that a lost sale? Hoping someone else
might buy it? But if you gave me the book
and I liked it, then I buy the next book. Great example is Thea Harrison. She was breaking into the field and gave away a ton of books. I happened to get one and loved it. So I bought the next one, one for my mom AND I'll buy the next one released, too. Lost sale? The lost sale would have been me NOT getting that book because I'd never heard of her.
The "idea" of lost sale depends on your definition. YOU seem to see any exchange without money is a lost sale. Obv most authors and publishers see a lot of returns on free books...which is why they continue to do it.
Why not check out the
LostbookSales website and see some real lost sales?
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Every day an author and a publisher lose out on a sale of book. This is a site for readers to tell the world about the lost sale whether it is because of price, territorial restrictions or general availability. There are a whole host of reasons a particular book is not distributed all over the world. Sometimes agents advise their authors to sell only domestic rights which usually means US or UK get the goods. Sometimes publishers aren’t exploiting those rights.
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But hey, YMMV.