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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because MOST of what he current sells are paper books. I don't know how many eBooks he sells, but I suspect (and I may of course be completely wrong!) that relatively few people will choose to buy what's available for free.
Time will, of course, be the judge of what marketing strategies do or don't work in this "brave new world".
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Doctorow is also an unusual case in that he owns BoingBoing, one of the top ten visited websites on the net, which he also uses to discuss his work. There's not anything wrong with this, of course, but what CD does is not necessarily replicable by other authors.