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Originally Posted by cjcherryh
I'm entering the market myself, with my backlist, and by what I see of pirate quality, I think the best counterattack is the production of better quality non-DRM copies. I have always had faith in the honesty of my readers, and feel if given a real and reasonable alternative to the pirates' bad copies, they'll rather have the real thing. Which is a little off-thread. Let me get back to it by saying I bear Google no ill will, and I think they do not have bad motives. The situation with official notification from the lawyers just put me in a position where I have to take some action or decline to act, the latter of which is not a good legal choice.
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I definitely think this is the best way to go. If people can get original digital copies of an author's work without having to pay an arm and a leg (or even more than a hardback copy!) to own it chances are they will be less likely to pirate it. It's actually strange to see that more authors aren't embracing digitally distributing their works themselves. From my basic understanding I think the distribution costs for a digital version would be negligible and the author might even be able to show more profit on the digital works.