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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do you not think, though, that when an author like Steve is doing the "right thing" and making his books available at extremely reasonable prices, it's a damned shame that some people still want "something for nothing" and will choose to download them illegally rather than pay the extremely modest asking price for them?
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Harry, I'm not disagreeing that Steve is doing the right thing. Maybe there are more that two of his works in the darknet. If so, that would invalidate my conclusions. The question at hand is, does the existance of darknet books take away legitimate sales? Do they act as advertising, creating more sales? I've heard both claims. This seems to be a reasonably controlled experiment (as reasonable as I think we'll ever get), some on darknet, some not, and basically flat sale across the board for all e-books, darknet available or not. It's not perfect, but it ought to mean something...