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I like how these statistics dump pirated books and free books in the same category of "not paid for". Of my four current e-ink readers, three came with a substantial number of copyright-free/expired books already pre-installed. How many people delete these?
But even for pirated books the decisive (and by publishers never asked) questions are:
How many of those books would have been purchased if the persons had not been able to get them off torrent sites?
And how many of those torrented books led to sales that may not have happened without them? (Recommendations, word of mouth, guilt, desire to support the author, etc.)
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