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Originally Posted by rcentros
While I agree that giving someone an eBook is not "recommending," I will mention that -- in the old days -- when someone was done with a paperback book, it was often passed on to the someone else. And while that may have been, technically, a "lost sale" it was also introducing a reader to a new author which, in turn, could lead to a new customer for the author.
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Of course, but that's a totally different scenario. You're not creating an additional copy of the book in the process: that's the fundamental difference with ebooks. When you give someone else a copy, you still have it yourself. Two people have copies of the book, where previously only one did.