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Originally Posted by taosaur
Neil Young: Piracy Is The New Radio http://gizmodo.com/5881167/neil-youn...-the-new-radio
That's penny wise and pound foolish. New authors more than anyone need the maximum possible exposure. If more authors were file-sharing their own works with a respectful introduction suggesting how readers can compensate them, the returns would be far greater than alienating potential readers and rationalizing one's lack of success by tilting at the windmill of lost sales because their work sits unread in a torrent of 3000 others. |
How spamming would help them reach users? They are competing with pirate best-sellers and well-known public domain classics.
is file sharing any better than simply publishing on a blog and slowly forming a following audience? You can still make a few bucks by ads in a blog from enough readers eager to read the next chapter of a serialized story...