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Originally Posted by AlexGrama
Not quite. It seems that I failed in presenting my opinion. On the whole, I am reluctant with his statement and of course, I will not stop buying his books.
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If we take it step by step:
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I was referring to the idea of downloading the book and after that buying it because of its awesomeness. IMO, this is just a scam.
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You don't think that people who download a book illegally and like it will also buy the book.
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If we would come up with an experiment which would consist in not buying any of his books for one or two months, you will rapidly notice a change in his mind.
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This doesn't make sense. Buying books from one author is not a continuous activity. Coelho writes one or two books per year, so buying his books is not even a monthly activity. Since even in the complete absence of pirating for any individual there would naturally be periods longer than a couple of months of not buying. To make an impact on the author the experiment would require people synchronizing their non-buying periods, but as long as they buy the books later, the bottom line for the author doesn't change.
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Why? Because with no profit, the idea of illegal downloading it's not so appealing.
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Do you mean no profit for the one or two months that you mentioned?
Coelho's experience shows that a book that is pirated sells better.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
It hasn't helped me any... people just fall back on the "he's unknown, so he must suck" argument and ignore my work anyway.
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If we extrapolate from Coelho's experience you would have sold less books if you weren't pirated, and the people who say "he's unknown, so he must suck" wouldn't buy the books of an unknown author anyway.