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Originally Posted by Over
1 - 1000 mp3s: 400 bought, 600 pirated
2 - 10000 mp3s: 800 bought, 9200 pirated.
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But following that logic, in case 1, imagine the 1000 books come from 400 authors.
Each author writes about 2,5 books,and get payed $10 per book they sell.
400 books sold,400 authors, Meaning each author would get $10.
In scenario 2, each author of the 400 authors have created 25 books to get 10000 books in the shop.
800 got sold, for 400 authors,meaning they'd only get $10 more for 10x more effort ($20 for 25 books)...
Or,scenario 3, same as scenario 2, only there now are 4000 authors (instead of 400) creating a total of 10000 books.
Each author would create 2,5 books to get 10000 books in the shop.
800 sales for 4000 authors, meaning on average that each author ends up getting $2 for their 2,5 books.
this is the basics of marketing (demand and offer)...
Authors are also people, with the majority of them being more salespeople than authors. If they see the market is too bad they just stop writing.
Only few 'true' authors continue despite; whether they get payed $20 per book,or $2 does not matter to them.
It's not always upto the marketing guys to 'publish'... It's also depending on the people that write..
And with more and more people opening the internet,more and more of these writers write small parts of their story on the internet, so that there's less and less need to read the book!