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Originally Posted by charleski
I seem to recall that this attitude worked really well for J.K. Rowling. So well, in fact, that people who might otherwise not have got involved in piracy ended up helping to digitise her last HP book so that a reasonably-well-proofed machine-readable form of it appeared on torrent sites within a week of the book's release. The Harry Potter books are now probably the most easily-obtainable of all pirated literature...
You fight piracy with convenience. If you only need to tap a few keys on your Kindle to read the latest John Grisham book right now, then people will pay rather than hunt out a torrent, wait for it to download and then try to figure out how to convert an amateur PDF file to something your machine will read properly.
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If it was released digitally, wouldn't it have been on torrent sites within a day of its release with better than reasonably-well-proofed quality? HP fans want access to the book immediately, and many don't want to wait a week for a copy that's not fully proofed.
As for Grisham, he released a book within the last couple weeks (Ford County) and I don't think it's on the torrent sites yet. His previous book (The Associate) took a while to get on torrent sites. Authors like Grisham make a lot of money right when a book is released, and to avoid illegal copies during that period is crucial.