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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Of course there's no evidence, since there's no way to accurately measure whether or not a pirate might have bought a book if they hadn't pirated it.
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There's a fair amount of evidence that (at the moment) making an ebook version available for free increases sales of the paper version of the book. See Eric Flint's essays for details.
Of course, this says nothing about how 'piracy' affects sales of ebooks. But I think, as with music, if ebooks are available at an easily searched store for reasonable prices (yours certainly are ), then people are much more likely to buy than to try to find and download a 'darknet' copy.
My time is certainly worth more than a few dollars per hour. And finding, downloading, possibly converting darknet copies is way too much hassle.