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Originally Posted by elcreative
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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You are mixing up the terms
no sale and
lost sale. "Lost sale" means something very specific in the eBook community and it doesn't mean how you're using it. If you want to call that an ideological spin, have at it, but you don't get to simultaneously claim that:
1. The definition I gave of Lost Sale is my ideology.
2. The definition you gave of Lost Sale is the truth. I.e., your "I called it a Lost Sale because it
is a lost sale" line.
Either "lost sale" has a definition or it's an ideology. If it's an ideology, you need to (in the future) say, "I called it a Lost Sale because that's how I define it." This will have the effect of signaling to your readers that you mean the term a certain (and different) way from other people's use of the term and will additionally mean that everyone else in the thread won't jump in to correct your non-standard use of the term.