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Originally Posted by Moejoe
So (drum roll) the impact of file-sharing on Dan Brown is roughly: 0.09758333333333333% lost or never would have bought sales.
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To be fair, that's somewhat misleading as ebooks are still in their infancy. When digital music pirating started, the vast majority of people still listened to music on CDs or casette. Or to put it another way, *all* digital music was pirating.
We're a little further along on the ebook front, but the fact remains that ebook sales are a fraction of total book sales. So the fact that pirated ebooks are a fraction of a fraction of total book sales is only logical, at least until more traditional readers switch to ebook format (or more non-traditional readers start becoming readers *because* of the ebook format).