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Originally Posted by pilotbob
It's funny to that the authors that are most likely to be pirated are the most popular and successful ones. There work is going to be pirated anyway. She already sells millions of books. Is she really worried about lost sales due to piracy?
I would wish as an author to have the popularity of Rowling. Should she feel good about so many people wanting to read her books?
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i know. and with all the interest lately in viral marketing (particularly the free publicity you can get from a blog post for instance), it's really too bad that these authors can't see (like musicians seem to, more and more) that sharing their books may be inevitable, but it's not such a catastrophe. more and more musicians are taking advantage of this to reach new audiences, and even some writers (see "the Pirate Coelho" for the most obvious example). Rowling, i would argue, is so successful that i am sure she is not losing any consequential income from copied ebooks, and if i were her i might see instead that having such a huge following is a very flattering thing.
in related news, i heard recently about a little experiment done by a comic book publisher (note that in france, comic books are closer to what i think in english you would call a graphic novel, they are usually slightly larger than A4 and have a hard cover and are read by adults and children depending on the comic). they decided to try an experiment to promote their next comic book : they sent a copy to 20 bloggers, and asked them to write a post about it. 18 of the 20 did so. the publisher did not do ANY other advertising. based only on these 18 blogs, that comic book got excellent sales. sadly, i have no head for numbers so i don't remember exactly but suffice it to say the publisher was very happy (and the author too, i presume).