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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
That's because (some) people are used to looking on pirate sites for their ebooks, so they would have no way of knowing how much or little the legitimate version costs. The solution to that would be to put a note in your ebook about how they can help (in financial or other ways) if they like it enough. But those people are already lost forever. They had 10 years of getting used to turning to pirate sites before anyone got around to selling legitimate ebooks. So for them it's a simple choice between downloading your ebook or downloading someone else's ebook.
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It's also because a good deal of the people doing the pirating
are not motivated by lower prices. Did no one read the previously posted link that piracy is highest in developing countries where the ebook
availability is usually nil?
Most of the pirates I know on the internet are people who WANT to pay for the book, but CAN'T. And they feel guilty about it, but if there is
literally no way to pay the author from their end of the internet, they're not going to not file-share, which would be a decision that hurts only themselves. Most of them also buy the legitimate version the minute it comes available.
The other "resolute" pirates are often people who collect compulsively, and who are never going to read their books, legal or illegal, bought or not. They're basically people who buy all the 70,000 free books on Amazon and stuff them in their Calibre library for the emotional high.