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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
But the issue is more like: 10 people are going to spend money to buy 10 books. Would you rather:
A. 7 buy John's book and 3 buy Jeff's book, or
B. 5 of the people that were going to buy John's book saw it on a torrent, so they decided to download it and they buy Jeff's book instead (which didn't come up immediately in a torrent search). So now 2 buy John's book, 8 buy Jeff's book, and 5 copies of John's book got torrented.
Sure, mid-lister Jeff is elated that his book is selling so well, but John isn't getting nearly the royalties that he ought to from his popular book, "Henry Porter and the Scholar's Stocking".
The amount paid on ebooks may be the same, but the compensation to the appropriate content owners certainly isn't.
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I understand the point you are making, and I only speak for myself when I say I'd rather they read it for free than not at all.
But I'm not really convinced that many people look for pirate ebooks in that way. They're more likely to browse a pirate site in the same way that others would browse Amazon looking for something to read.
Apart from anything else, anyone who would specifically go looking for something on a pirate site that they could buy for £2 probably needs the money more than I do anyway.