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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
..Without directly asking about pirating, just calling it sideload tells you nothing at all...
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I definitely have to ask for the sideloading.
The only other option would be: How many books do you have on whatever medium, including thousands of books laying untouched on a NAS?
But this would be entirely wrong. Pirates moving a book to a reader doesn't necessarily mean they'll ever read it. But same applies for legit purchases. I've got a backlog of about 1.500 books easily, all of them legally obtained (all purchased, not a single freebie).
So the books that actually physically are on a reader are the closest I can get about real demand. Yes, pirates may hoard in bigger quantities. But this I can't eliminate from any statistic.
And it's not the real topic. My issue was: What do people have on their readers and from which source? But of course excluding the standard downloaded ones from the respective stores. That's an option only the buyers have, not the pirates, so there's nothing to compare.