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Originally Posted by Kris777
Ok, very simple question: What Baen will do if you purchase one most popular book for $5 from them and post it as a free download on this forum and after it 1000 visitors will dowload it for free? Can we say that they will loose some money on it or not?
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Toni Weisskopf (And Jim Baen when he was alive) considers it 'free advertising' pretty much. IOW, any copy of an ebook given away to a friend quite often (often enough to make it a good source of word-of-mouth advertising, in effect) leads the recipient to buy MORE ebooks from Baen authors - both ebooks and dead-tree.
Now if you really want to piss Baen Books off, just try re-selling those ebooks. IOW, as Cory Doctorow and others have stated time and again, it's not the "theft" of a 'stolen ebook' that hurts the authors, and the publishers most, but the lack of publicity for the stories. If I write (okay, *finish*) a novel, but only a small publishing firm prints it and then does nothing to market it, I may never get out of the obscurity ghetto. But if someone 'steals' an ebook version and starts posting it to the various ebook sections of Usenet or on the #bookz IRC channels, thousands of readers may discover my work and demand more.
Derek