You aren't harmed financially if someone who would never consider buying your book gets it as a free download. You are hurt if someone who would otherwise pay gets a free copy, but if "piracy" gets the book more widely known, so more people hear about it, this might increase sales.
Not necessarily. It could be the reverse.
ReplyDeleteYou aren't harmed financially if someone who would never consider buying your book gets it as a free download. You are hurt if someone who would otherwise pay gets a free copy, but if "piracy" gets the book more widely known, so more people hear about it, this might increase sales.
@Joe: yes, I know: it's the same reasoning used for mp3 downloads :) We'll see if it helped or now.
ReplyDeleteI loved the last link :)
ReplyDeleteYou should read some of the intros to Cory Doctorow's books to understand why this is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteAll the news books get in download pages, it does not matter whether the book is good or not :)
ReplyDeleteJust because somebody downloaded your book for free does not mean that "for sure it's less money in your pocket."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/18/free-ebooks-cory-doctorow
FWIW, your blog RSS (and thus Plänet Debian) has code like the following in it (replaced angle-brackets):
ReplyDelete〈div class="blogger-post-footer"〉〈img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462006525194985726-7884088453638674494?l=sandrotosi.blogspot.com" alt="" height="1" width="1" /〉〈/div〉
This is… bad, from a privacy standpoint especially. Got this warning due to Konqueror’s broken SSL implementation, actually…
@mirabilos: would you care to explain why you think this is "bad"?
ReplyDeletealso, do you really think this is something up for a comment in a random blog post instead of an email directly to me?