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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
So, you're trying to suggest that, unless I have specific figures, I'm all wrong?
Sorry. Statement stands. It does not depend on "numbers."
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
You're the person who is saying that the majority of people -- for the sake of argument, let's narrow it down to Americans, since you're American -- are dishonest. You have further said, very specifically, that the members of MobileRead download unauthorized copies of books and music rather than purchasing them legitimately, and that those people say openly that they do so because "nobody will be able to stop them." You have repeatedly made this statement that most people are dishonest, something which flies in the face of both the published statistics and the personal experience of MobileRead members, and as you're the one making the extraordinary statements, it is your duty to present support for them, not everyone else's duty to refute them.
So until you give us some reason to believe what you're saying other than "because I said so," your statement has the truth value of "the moon is made of green cheese."
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I generally get high dozens, total, of the sum of my 14 books per year. This year, however, I'm expecting less than 50 total sales at this rate.
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I wasn't going to say this, out of pity, but you've called me a thief one time too many:
If those sales are only 10% of the people reading your books -- that is, if for every person who buys a book from you, nine people read pirate copies -- then you're
still only talking 500 reads in total for all 14 of your books. 36 readers per book. More people than that read my freaking
fanfic in a fandom so small that most people would be surprised that it exists at all.
In other words,
even if 90% of them are reading pirate copies instead of buying the books, people still don't want to read your books.