Thread: Is piracy likely to harm ebook sales?
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Old 04-03-2010, 10:14 AM   #124
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Originally Posted by JaneFancher View Post
DAW got snarky last year and went after a bunch with cease and desists on all of their writers. Don't know how effective that was. .
It tends to make people pirate them even more. It's become known as the Harlan Ellison effect. Before he sued a fan over some book that had been out of print for 20 years there wasn't much of his stuff available, now all of it is. People upload them all on a regular basis just to annoy him.
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