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Old 04-22-2009, 12:37 PM   #229
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It sounds like you're falling prey to the 1 pirated book = 1 lost sale fallacy. Kovid addressed that earlier.
It's not a fallacy in this particular market.

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Hollywood is having some of it's best years even though movie piracy is at an all time high. The Dark Knight is one of the most-pirated movies and is one of the highest grossing films.
You can't equate that at all; at best you'd have to find a correlation between movie piracy and DVD sales/rentals. Movies have a performance component (theatres) for additional revenue that books do not. All books are "straight to video" releases.
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