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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
As I've said before: As a relatively unknown author, I hardly think my case is one to base things on. Find the impact on authors like King and Rowling, and work your way down.
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Honestly, whether authors like King, Rowling, Clancy and the like lose a few sales makes no difference to me. I bought the first four HP, and I had almost written her off when I stumbled upon the fifth on the net, that I downloaded. No way was I going to fork over another 15 euros for that. After skimming through it, my mind was definitly set. I didn't even bother to look up the last two and you know what: Rowling's still a millionaire, with enough money to sustain her family for the next ten generations.
The authors that do care about these figures (for practical reasons, if nothing else) are in between these two extremes. So the question becomes: does the impact of filesharing changes when and how an author can begin to expect to be able to make a living from his craft?
The Baen experiment tends to show that if there is an impact, it's not a negative one.
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And if someone works out a way to enact real security on the web, worldwide, making anonymous web traffic and transactions all but impossible, I will remember you said that!
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