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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
She did something she knew was illegal to prove a point. That just makes her a thief too. Whether it was 4 chapters or the entire book does not matter. Even worse, she got her brother to do her dirty work.
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You are assuming an awful lot. Her blog doesn't say, for instance, that she made the experiment without the publisher's consent, or what the terms of her contract were - say, maybe she had the right to use these chapters as she saw fit, or whatever.
The blog article is interesting, but as others have mentioned, there may be a lot of factors in how much a book sells, especially a series. Still, what she describes (paper version selling out quickly, for instance) is troubling - though in this case, it seems to show that the false pirate ebook actually helped sales.
(The experiment, as described, also seems to me to be biased: if the pirated ebook is massively visible on the very night the book was supposed to be released, it's not a big surprise that many people tried to download it - if you've been waiting for the last book in the series, and it's available even before it actually hits the stores, it's likely you will be tempted to download)