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Originally Posted by Synamon
How many of those downloads replaced a trip to the library to borrow a paper book or a trip to the flea market to buy a cheap used book?
People's reading habits are changing due to new technology, but there isn't any way to equate public domain downloads with lost book sales.
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Hence, as long as we can't transform it into an estimate of lost book sales these discussions seem kind of pointless.
In some way or other people are affected by the easy availability of free reading, positive for readers, perhaps less so for writers. We just don't know how. As far a I know, there have never been any large scale survey on this phenomena.