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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I'm trying to persuade, in order to prevent "reading for entertainment" from going the way of tap-dancing and vaudeville (which I have come to understand isn't much of a stretch).
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It already went that way years ago if you mean in terms of it being a minority interest, but that was nothing to do with piracy.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
It wasn't a matter of preserving it; it was a matter of redistributing it without permission, by someone who should have known that would cost him sales, but clearly didn't care (or didn't care enough to actually think about their actions, as he suggested in his comments).
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The existence of an ebook version won't hurt sales of the speculator-only hardback edition. That is the point that writers who deliberately restrict their audience in this way fail to see. The markets are entirely different. Speculators want something that will increase in value so they can make a profit from it. Ebooks are for people who just want to read the story and can't afford/justify the cost of the speculator edition.
If he refuses to take money from the people who just want the ebook, he really has nothing to sulk about if they download it anyway. The days when readers would just do without because the writer doesn't want them to read it are long gone and they are never coming back.