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Originally Posted by Moejoe
This really isn't about rights and wrongs, or stealing from a supermarket, it's about whether you want to embrace reality or fight against it. The reality is your material will be shared if its popular enough and in a digital form. The reality is you can do very little about it, bar firing up the waaambulance. The reality is that if you embrace sharing you gain sales (Coehlo, Doctorow, many others).
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This reality is fine, if you happen to be an established author that makes his living off of printed books. Those of us who embrace the e-book as a legitimate format in its own right, disdain paper for its wasteful and limiting physical properties, and don't have Big Publishing backing us up, don't benefit too well from the examples of printed authors.
Following your "reality" will only doom indie authors to obscurity, while maintaining the status quo of Big Pub and holding back an industry that needs to evolve to the new era.