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But of course it is as it is. Any serious author knows or at least should know the market into which they are trying to sell their books. That piracy exists. That books are easy to pirate, particularly ebooks. That It is easy to find pirate copies of just about anything. That despite this the vast majority of people don't resort to obtaining pirate copies. That the higher they price their book, the less copies they will sell, and that those not buying will either not bother with the book, will get it from some other legitimate source which results in them getting less (library) or nothing (used), or will pirate it. These are the facts of todays market, like it or not. Yet the Big 5 response has been to substantially raise ebook prices, to the detriment of their authors. Some of whom blame unknown levels of piracy which they knew existed before they even wrote the book.
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