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Originally Posted by stonetools
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It's a nice anecdote. Ain't data, though.
Gotta balance that against authors who believe that they lost sales through piracy . They don't get quoted on this website, since the prevailing meme here is that piracy is OK, but they are out there.
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I would have liked to read about the author you found that thinks he lost sales through piracy. Maybe you find the link you originally wanted to put in before editing. And I myself probably come over as someone that supports pirating by what I post. I am not offended beeing called a pirate, because I am. I just don't see that I am attacking a certain author personally. Reading at the rate I am reading is not unaffordable for me if I only had to pay for what I read. Finding a book that I like is a different story.
On the other hand - in the last batch of bluray disk that I bought last week was a movie called
Skyline you might have heard about. That was a complete waste of money. The movie itself was beautiful made, nice cg-fx and all - but the story especially the end just plain aweful and disappointing. My wife and me suffered through the thing in the hope it would get better - but it didn't.
I am just afraid that would happen with a book - takes so much longer to consume it. And if it is bad do you just read it in the hope that it will get better?