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Originally Posted by LadyKate
Something I've been curious about. What is the difference between a used book and a pirated copy? The author/publisher does not get anything from a resale of a used book.
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The author / publisher has been paid for the used book when it was new, 1 sale 1 copy and only one person at a time has that copy. For the pirated version it may be 1 sale 20 million copies (The extreme situation is that everyone can read a book at once while you have only sold 1 copy).
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Originally Posted by LadyKate
Too little time to read to waste on "freebie or near freebie books" that don't have what it takes. BUT I do hit on the occasional jewel of a new author that starts as a "freebie" ebook.
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That's why some people don't read any indie books, with a decent publisher you can expect the book to be at least a certain level of competance - Doesn't mean you will like it, of course, but at least it's not illegible and if you like books from a certain imprint you will probably like other books from the same imprint (Before the flame war starts, I'm not knocking all self published books here and agree that there are good ones).