[rixte]

Here's the part that ultimately make her story fall apart for me:

"Book three, however, faltered in strange ways. The print copies sold just as well as before, landing it on the list, but the e-copies dropped precipitously. "

"Then they told me that they were cutting the print run of The Raven King to less than half of the print run for Blue Lily, Lily Blue. No hard feelings, understand, they told me, it’s just that the sales for Blue Lily didn’t justify printing any more copies."

If the print version is selling just as well as the first books in the series, it doesn't make sense to drop the PRINT run of the fourth book ... unless it was an overgenerous print run in the first place.

And then, apparently, rather than buying the ebook version, the pirates bought physical copies instead of ebook ones? Why are the same people who at midnight are frantically asking to find a 'legit pdf' so they can read this book then going to the online bookstore and buying a physical copy that takes two days to arrive instead of an ebook one? ( online orders had emptied the warehouse). Because it wasn't that ebook sales soared, it's that releasing a fake book on the web supposedly made the *print* run sell out.

Maybe the print run sold out in two days because it was half the size of the previous one and the publisher just made a terrible call reducing it based on ebook sales? And not because of an inability of people to find a pirated version?

I mean, I am probably biased because I prefer ebook to paper in general, but I just don't think her reasoning makes sense.