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I give out promo copies of my books and I have tons of free stories on my site, but more people download my books than buy them :/ Which is dumb, because if they just messaged me I'm happy to share in the hopes that someone would review and pass my name around. But I'm like really poor -- like I'm thinking I might go to jail for debts. So the piracy thing is kind of a big issue with me. I don't mind someone sharing my book with a friend, but when you download 40 copies of my book, there's obviously something wrong.
That being said, I'm sure if someone asked me if their book club could read my book I'd probably be happy to provide a nice copy as long as they said they were just going to keep it in their group and reviews would be much appreciated.
But if they're just passing someone's book to 900 people, and it's the only book the author has... well, someone's eating Top Ramen for dinner and might just decide that the whole writing thing isn't worth the time and effort. In which case, the readers lose out too.
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