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Originally Posted by Moejoe
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. |
There's quite a buzz about him in the pirate circles at the moment, they see him as some sort of pro-piracy champion. I don't know if that is a deliberate marketing strategy or not, but I would suspect that he doesn't really want people to pirate his books, he just doesn't care whether they do or not because he knows that they are not having any impact on his income.
My view is that downloaders are no worse than people who buy used books or read books in the library, and have the same potential to increase future income as those readers. There are ways to make money from free content, so a writer with a bit of imagination could have the best of both worlds.