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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Back in the print only days, how often did you see one book bought, and then passed around to 20 other people?
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This reminds me that piracy was alive and well in the heyday of mass market paperbacks. Remember all the little corner shops that sold stripped paperbacks for a dime each? Piracy, pure and simple. And that was definitely piracy where someone was making money from stolen goods.
I remember once stopping at a yard sale, where I saw someone selling one of my books with the cover ripped off. It was a downer moment: first someone bought a stolen stripped copy, then they were trying to sell it for a quarter at a yard sale. But I left it there, thinking--well, maybe someone will buy it and like what they read, and become a new fan. You never know.
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Success is not about how many copies you sold, or how much you earned, but rather how well you did your job, and how happy your readers are when they're done with your book. That's true success.
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Very good reminder for everyone.
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Steve, my advice to you is, lighten up.... Give away some of your stuff. Share it with others. Offer it DRM free.
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To defend Steve, he has done all of those things. And if you look at his contributions to the board over the last year, I think you'll see that this particular expression of frustration was atypical. At least I hope that's an accurate appraisal.
That said, I agree with most of your points.