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Originally Posted by BWhite
Now the consumer base for a Sci-Fi author... I will grant you much higher rates.
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In my (informal; I don't really feel like sitting down and doing a detailed statistical analysis) study of genre availability on the darknets, you're half-right: as a genre, SF/F dominates heavily.
Looking a little more closely, we find that the overwhelming majority of the SF being shared is scanned-and-OCRed copies of books that aren't commercially available as e-books (or in some cases weren't when the original scan work was done - copies of
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy had been kicking around for at least ten years before the commercial electronic release).
So far about what you'd expect, yes? Where it threw me for a loop was in the runner-up genre:
Romance novels. At a ballpark guess, they're about 15% of what's out there (at least in the sites I looked at). And what's more, pretty much all of those titles are DRM-stripped commercial releases.
Make of that what you will.