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Originally Posted by HarryT
I was responding to the poster who said "I don't buy eBooks because the quality is not good enough".
Libraries in the UK pay the author about 6p each time a book is borrowed. How does that payment reach the author for a pirated download?
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And if you look at the statistics on those particular payments most authors actually receive something around 99p per year for the actual loans. It's the big boys like King or Rowling who get the profits, not the small authors. (I'll try to find the article that I read on this a couple of days ago).
My point still stands, if he wasn't going to pay, whether that be through library payment or the price of the book, then nothing is lost. A phantom sale isn't a sale, and never will be. But maybe he likes the author, and maybe the next time he's out shopping he'll be more likely to pick up the work of that author and pay for it. As far as I'm concerned, as a writer, I'd take a reader over a paying customer any day.