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Originally Posted by HarryT
Not every illegal download is a lost sale, but plainly some proportion of them do indeed represent lost sales. The problem is that it's impossible to say what that percentage is. It's almost certainly not 0%, and neither is it 100%; it lies somewhere in between ("the most obvious statement of the week", I know!).
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Just as impossible to measure is the percentage of people who download something for free and then go on to buy other titles by the same writer. But you could make a vague guess based on statistics from a free promo on Amazon. Different market I know, and if all your titles are free they'd be more likely to just download them all. But it certainly does happen.