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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Because most of the time when I lend someone a book, it's because the person I'm lending it to has never heard of the author or the book. They wouldn't be buying it at all if I wasn't trying to turn them on to it. And even if you see the fact that I didn't buy a gift copy for them (instead of lending) as a "loss of sale" (again ... highly speculative), it doesn't a take into account the future sales that might be generated if I'm successful in pairing a book/author with a new fan who will very likely buy all of their future works (and in turn introduce others to it
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YES!!!!
I can cite any number of personal experiences when I have lent or given away a copy of a book to someone in the hope they'd find a new genre or author to like as a result. And in a number of cases, that's exactly what happened. The reader subsequently went on to not only buy other books from that particular author, but in a wider sense within the genre they hadn't explored before. So, yes I encouraged piracy and yet helped generate sales anyway. Go figure.