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Originally Posted by darryl
It is unclear whether her anti-piracy efforts had any effect at all.
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This is clear:
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The effects were instant. The forums and sites exploded with bewildered activity. Fans asked if anyone had managed to find a link to a legit pdf. Dozens of posts appeared saying that since they hadn’t been able to find a pdf, they’d been forced to hit up Amazon and buy the book.
And we sold out of the first printing in two days.
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Now, if you said results, however clear, weren't such as to prove the case, I might agree.
The main problem, from a scientific standpoint, is the extremely low sample size (one book title).
A peer-reviewed study, perhaps in the
Journal of Marketing Research, using the same basic methodology but with a much larger book sample size, would be more convincing. I hope a university scholar, in cooperation with agreeable authors and publishers, does that study.