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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
A new author writes a book and decides to publish it directly as an e-book for a price of say $7.00. We will keep it simple and say he does not bother with any DRM. One person actually pays to download the file and then uploads it to a web site for 'sharing' e-books; say darkwiiiingduckbooks.com. Anyone out there who pays $7.00 to download a copy from the original site is just being foolish when it is available for free at this site. If say 1,000 people download the e-book from darkwiiiingduckbooks.com the author has no legitimate cause for complaint as that $7,000 was only ever potential income.
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But if the new author had not ebooked the book, but just published it as a pbook, he would have sold more than one copy. Perhaps it would only have been 200 copies at (to keep it simple) $7.00 each. So he would have made $1400. You can't blame him for thinking that he should make that 1400, no matter which format he sells the book in.