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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
This is clear:
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.
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Dozens? That doesn't sound like many to me.
In all honesty, this whole blog post sounds like nothing more than a marketing scheme to draw attention to herself.
How many would have sold without her stunt? We have no clue because she pulled a stunt.
It wouldn't surprise me if she told her readers to go to the pirate sites.
Wouldn't be the first time.
Most readers don't pirate. So she either has dishonest readers or did it herself.
Now, I will place odds there probably won't be a fifth book.
By putting up that fake copy, she potentially took money away from the publisher.
Note: I sincerely hope the publisher has the rights to the main character.