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Originally Posted by GlennD
US trade in 2016 (the latest numbers on Wiki....) was almost $5 trillion. $300 million is a drop in the bucket.
And usually when book companies are talking about losses, they're estimating by the number of downloads. That's legit, from their point of view, but they didn't actually lose that amount in sales. The vast majority of pirates are not selective, they're downloading ebooks en masse and aren't reading most of them. They certainly would not be buying all of those books if downloads weren't available. The actual loss to the book industry is a lot less than the $300 million.
None of that, of course, makes piracy any more right (or moral?).
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And what about those people who buy an ebook when it's on sale or being offered for free for a few days? Is the author/publisher losing anything by those sales or no? Granted there are those who pirate books, but just as you can't claim that a book is a loss because people buy and don't read a book right away I don't think you can legitimately say it's a loss when people buy a book that is offered (by the publisher) for free for a limited time. I mean you may buy (book title) by (author's name) when it's offered free and not read it right away and then later find that you like the author's work and so he/she makes back the $ he/she didn't get from the one offered for free as a result of additional sales.