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Originally Posted by Nathan Campos
As I've already said, all things have two or more sides.
eBook piracy is illegal and is bad for the autors, but at the other side, make people read more. What is a very good thing, but now, the governs need to make laws and fiscalize this actions much more to make a floating point where the autor and the guy that download books illegaly are beneficiated.
Putting books that have a low price  |
Ebook piracy is not necessarily bad for the authors. No, I'm not saying that the author gains income from the piracy of a specific title by a person, but rather that the reader may discover that the author's works are of sufficient interest to warrant *purchase* of other titles by that author. To be specific, and in interest of full disclosure, *I* have discovered at least twenty authors by reason of stumbling across one or two of their titles on the darknet. These authors are now ones I routinely purchase from eReader, Fictionwise and Amazon.
I'd go so far as to say that being able to 'darknet' unknown works has freed me to experiment with authors in genres I had never considered reading in the days before widespread ebook availability.
Derek