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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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.
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I believe Konrath would do well whatever he chose to sell, piracy or not. He's a great hawker, a blower of trumpets (mainly his own), a marketeer. What nobody ever discusses is the fiction he writes (at least I haven't seen it). He's traded in any sense of himself as a writer for the cash rewards of Konrath as brand. There's another thread on here asking "Has Konrath changed your life?" (or words to that effect) and I would have to answer, "Yes, he has. He's made me never want to read a Konrath book because I'm sick of hearing his bloody name all the time."
EDIT: And yeah, if you want to make money as a writer, the Konrath method is probably the path you want to follow.