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Crowl, I work in games. I'm not at all rabid on the subject, and the games industry dosn't take the same stance as the music industry. Indeed, it's bad for us that the attitude of the film and music industries has rubbed off onto us when generally* we're trying hard to be more reasonable!
(*The exceptions tend to cause a lot of customer screaming, and even more from people like me who deel it damages the games industry as a whole)
That said, I'd reiterate my point that simultaneous release is good. Nothing gets people who'd buy your product, who want your product into piracy more than seeing other parts of the world allready playing your game/reading your book.
Heck, one of the reasons I like Baen books is typically it can be over a year between the ebook version on their site and a paper version of the book comming to the UK. And the author gets just as much, if not more, from the ebook purchase. It's also, typically, about half the price ($6 vs £7, odd).
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