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Originally Posted by dura
The first sentence seems fair to me, but the second seems to indicate that, if a book is succesful, it's less faulthy to copy?
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Nope, it is still as wrong to do so. But publishers like to argue that a) e-books are a niche too small to be taken serious, and b) selling e-books will inevitably lead to piracy which would dramatically hurt overall sales.
In my opinion, they are wrong on both accounts. Mrs Rowling and her publishers continue to
refuse to accept the fact that people are interested in e-books, despite the recent buzz and the huge amount of downloads of the leaked, transcribed "Deathly Hallows".
The question is how much did the leak hurt or help the sale of "Deathly Hallows". Here a quote from the publisher of Bill Clinton's "My Life":
"I can't think of an example from our publishing list where sales were hurt," says Paul Bogaards, director of publicity at Alfred A. Knopf, which published Clinton's book. "None of the leaks are going to hurt sales of Potter."