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Originally Posted by sirbruce
This is because the vast majority of readers haven't gotten into ebooks yet, so the fact there's a free ebook available has little impact on pbook sales, and even less so when pbook sales are high.
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This may be true when it comes to impact on pBook sales. But it cuts no mustard with respect to
eBook sales. Anyone who can find the eBook for purchase can
equally easily find a legitimate copy for free download. Especially when folks at Baen's Bar tell them where to look (also with the publisher's blessing).
I'm sure we can easily find people who say "oh, I just downloaded the legitimate free copies." I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find that there are plenty such. But I also see a steady stream of people who say things like (paraphrasing) "I read some of the free downloads, and then came to Webscriptions to buy the rest -- even though I have the rest for free already." And Arnold reports over at the Bar that each time there's a CD in one of the books, sales
of the content that's on the CD take a bump up.
Your quite correct observation that "[...] the vast majority of readers haven't gotten into ebooks yet [...]" provides no explanation for the observed behavior about eBook sales.
Xenophon