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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
It's debatable how "positive" the prevention of casual sharing is. Casual sharing is how most of us discovered our favorite authors.
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Exactly that. Though it only happened for me with pbooks so far (quite some time ago so there had been no ebook).
A friend of mine once lent me a trilogy. I loved the story so much that I bought that trilogy for myself, but her next trilogy, bought all of her short story books and other series as well... I have almost all of her books by now, except for a few non fiction books (not interested in the topics). I even bought some of the paper books I already had in ebook form, and more than one of her books to give as gifts.
By now she's a publisher herself and I have not only bought her books but a few books from several other authors she has published.
I doubt I would have bought the first series and gotten to know her and the other authors if I hadn't read the books shared by my friend.