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Originally Posted by starrigger
I'll just suggest that whatever harm the pirate sites might be doing in giving your books away for free, it's probably outweighed by the free publicity they're giving you, in making your name more visible.
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I just had a look on the pirate book sites for Steve Jordan books, and assuming he isn't the one that wrote the CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide, the only one I could find was The Onuissance Cells.pdf within a jumble of over a 100 ebooks by people that I have mostly never heard of. It's been there for about 17 months, but that particular site doesn't tell you how many times it has been downloaded. It has generated 3 follow up comments, one of them is thanks for a book by someone else.
The Onuissance Cells is a (authorised) free download anyway, and anyone who wanted it wouldn't have to put up with a crappy pdf:
http://www.stevejordanbooks.com/novels/onus.htm
So does anyone want to explain how he has lost any money from the availability of that book on the pirate scene? Because unless the authorised one is full of paid adverts that have been chopped out of the unauthorised one, I'm really struggling to understand what the fuss is about.