Thread: Maggie Stiefvater writes of her experience with piracy
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Old 11-01-2017, 12:24 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post
Hey. I just read through the article.
This got my attention.
" My brother put it on every pirate site." Pirates didn't steal her books. She did it herself to prove a point.

That proves a point all right. If you put something out there free, people will take it.
I think you need to read her article much more closely. You seem to have missed a lot.

A quick summary:
  • She found book 3 uploaded to pirate sites before it was originally listed for sale (appears some users took the e-ARCs and uploaded them to pirate sites)
  • Sales of book 3 remained steady in p-book, but plummeted in e-book
  • As an experiment, her brother made a fake copy of book 4. It was actually just the first four chapters, repeated a few times. That is what he uploaded to pirate sites
  • Feedback on said sites consisted of 'WTF!? Guess I have to buy the real book to get the story.'
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