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Originally Posted by monkeyluis
I read a blog post of his that said he didn't care how you got his books, even pirating. He seems to like amazon, as an author, because it is easier to deal with than any other means.
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Konrath's really big about "Just read some ebooks, okay?" Not necessarily his, and not necessarily from legit sources... he's aware that authors do best when they have a huge set of reader-fans, and that reader-fans have always included teenagers, broke college students, graveyard-shift waitresses, and grandfathers in hospitals, who don't have the money to buy new books--but if they read & love an author, they might buy the next book by that author, and they'll otherwise tell people, and some of those will buy books.
Konrath understands that authors need to encourage *readers*, not customers; they're overlapping fields, and an author needs both long-term... but readers will create customers, and it doesn't work the other way around. Readers who enjoy an author will become multiple future customers. Customers who didn't care for the book won't--especially if they felt cheated on the price. People who got the book for free and didn't like it might tell a friend, "it's not to my taste, but maybe you'll enjoy it;" people who payed $13.99 and found it flat & boring will tell their friends "it's a rip-off; don't bother."