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Old 04-29-2012, 12:19 AM   #220
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Originally Posted by petrucci View Post
Here is an article about the effect of free adult entertainment on the adult entertainment industry.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/20...orn02_ST_N.htm

As you would expect, the free content has a negative effect on sales and profits.
Adult entertainment has traditionally been expensive--or at least, not free, and not widely available. (In comparison to, say, pop music or romance novels.) Books, OTOH, are widely available to read for free, or for cheap in venues that don't pay royalties to authors.

I don't see that free books on the internet have changed the *proportion* of free book content to paid book content.
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