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Originally Posted by Moejoe
All the ones I've met (virtually) have been avid fans and big spenders when it comes to fiction and non-fiction. They're mostly communities, a lot like this one, who gather to spread around their love of the written word. A lot of them have sprung up as methods to circumvent geographic restrictions by acting as sale-for-sale clubs.
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That fits with my observations too, but it is mainly fan-made ebooks rather than liberated commercial ebooks. Though the liberated ones are in there too of course.
Also, research shows that people who download unauthorised content from such places spend on average 20% more on legitimate digital content than people who don't download.
So maybe Steve's problem isn't that people are pirating his books, it is that people AREN'T pirating his books. Piracy certainly seems to be working for J A Konrath at the moment.