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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
An obscure author, on the other hand, *may* benefit from piracy, although I think the benefits are, realistically, quite overstated. Since having your book hidden away on the darknet in a file with 2,000 other books isn't really doing a lot to combat obscurity either, particularly since someone probably only downloaded that file because they knew it had "11-22-63" in it.
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What realistically is the harm done to the obscure author? If his/her book stays hidden with other few thousand books and never gets read, no lost revenue. And who can realistically read 2000 books without spending years and years of reading (and that is if you read ALOT). So it is just a huge library. If that one obscure author has a real nice cover, or name, or something, it might stand out, get noticed (to that person looking through it), and will get read. And quite possible someone that looked for unknown authors and reads them that are inside thousands of other, possibly already more popular, then that author has a new fan. If you downloaded that huge library for the sole purpose of having different books available (again you cannot read em all anyway) then you might end up buying the, say, 10 books you really liked.