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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Why does it matter how significant of an impact it has? It exists, and the Big5 are represented more than Indies.
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It matters because if the impact is insignificant, then it wouldn't really matter much, except from a rhetorical arguing point.
I would guess that outside the west, most of those indies are unknown. Heck, I would guess outside the ebook community, most of those indies are unknown. The flip side is that authors like JK Rowling, Stephen King and Tom Clancy are known world wide.
Of course, we probably should define terms. When I hear piracy I think people illegally selling things, not simply posting them on some dark web to be downloaded for free. If we are talking the latter, then heck all it takes is one fan to post it. I haven't check in a long while, but at one time, you could find a really odd mix of very famous and very obscure books on the usenet groups.