As Cory Doctorow has said before, the problem for authors isn't piracy - it's obscurity.
In my case, I no longer bother with any "new" (from my point of view) author unless:
1. The author has some sort of web presence.
2. I am able to get, for free, some of the author's work. Sort of a "free sample" to let me decide if the author's works are something that I am interested in.
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