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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
This is a reasonable argument, but it really only holds for obscure authors.
Stephen King, or James Patterson, or P.D. James, or Stieg Larsson, don't suffer from obscurity, and thus there aren't really any upsides to piracy for them.
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Well known author Neil Gaiman:
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"Then I started to notice that two things that seemed much more significant. One of which was that places where I was being pirated -- particularly Russia (where people were translating my stuff into Russian and spreading it out into the world) I was selling more and more books. People were discovering me through being pirated. And then they were going out and buying the real books, and when a new book would come out in Russia it would sell more and more copies."
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