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[QUOTE=cjr72;1954024]I'm sure the publishers would disagree but history shows that the content industry is often spectacularly wrong in that regard. Google VCR and the Boston Strangler.
Call me naive but I don't find it hard to believe that Neil Gaiman has sufficient knowledge of sales figures for books authored by Neil Gaiman.
Point missed entirely. It's that works that can be found for free (sanctioned or not) does not necessarily preclude healthy growth in sales as Neil Gaiman found out.[
He may have done even better if he simply released his book in Russia through the normal channels. We just don't know at this point. Color me skeptical about piracy being a better way to distribute books than going through a publisher.
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