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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
If you think only books on the latest craze make money... well, I disagree.
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Uh...I think his point was that if all you want to do is make a fat pay cheque (and there's nothing in particular wrong with that), then you should be aggressively working to identify optimal markets and genres and churning out a book to fit that in as little time as possible; basically maximizing your potential profit, with no regard to what you like to write. But I could be wrong, that's just what I gathered from actually reading the words of his post...
I don't want to be patronizing by saying something you obviously know already, but your books wouldn't be any more popular if book piracy didn't exist; in fact, the tech that makes book piracy so easy also maximizes your chance of success by letting you reach billions of people. If you're not successful in this environment, there's no doubt several reasons why (both ones you can and can't control), but piracy probably isn't a major factor.