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Originally Posted by Superlucky
My point is that ebook consumers are not "average". People who buy ebooks have also invested several hundred dollars in a device to read them and tend to be tech-savvy. Best-sellers like The Lost Symbol are not exactly fine literature that people expect to re-read later. It's the kind of book you lend to someone and then just tell them to keep it.
The Lost Symbol isn't just number 1 on Amazon - it's number 1 at The Pirate Bay as well: http://thepiratebay.org/top/601. That's a lot of people willing to be satisfied with a pirated pdf even when they can buy a nicely formatted ebook. |
Yes. Except I suspect the majority of people who bought would not go pirate bay at the exclusion of a paper book purchase (whether now or later once the paperback is out), and the greater majority of the pirate bay crowd would be unlikely to buy the copy (other than perhaps dirt cheap, second hand, wherefrom no money goes to the publisher) even if the pirate bay did not have it.
That's my intuition on the matter. And it's really all I have to counter your own intuition on it.
- Ahi