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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
I am more likely to give an author my money than a musician or a movie studio.
There's multiple revenue streams for them. Authors really only make money on royalties. Maybe on a book tour they make a little (I dunno).
That said, I pretty much never buy an author blind. DRM hurts loaning books to friends which I think drives sales. I think a lot of sales are generated by being loaned an author's book, or reading an author's book at the library.
For example, I just bought Brandon Sanderson's latest ebook on a sale a few days back. If I hadn't read his other books through other channels than buying (library, used, other), I would never have bought that one blind. Of course, it was DRM-free. I probably wouldn't have bought it otherwise (principle of the matter - buying DRM encourages DRM).
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Loaning helps to a point, but it's not ideal with ebooks because you never know if the person you're loaning it to is going to hand it to 12 other people, etc. I do participate in various loaning sites such as lendleme and my books are loanable. I am also working on getting the ebooks into a library program in Houston. The print copies are available in two or three libraries in the US.
We have to play all sides of the game to attract readers.