[ SECRET POST #3979 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3979 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

As everyone else is mentioning free ebooks at libraries.

Amazon also has plenty of free ebooks. There are also the sites where authors give away their books for free. Instafreebie is one of these. If you google free ebook sites, there are sites with lists and lists.

The other thing is that authors, especially indie authors need book reviews. If you can establish yourself as a credible reviewer on amazon or goodreads or with your own blog, authors will give you a free book in exchange for an honest review.

There are plenty of ways to get free ebooks without resorting to piracy.

Ebook piracy really hurts authors both indie and professional. Maggie Stiefvater recently posted a great tumblr bit about this and how ebook piracy hurt her sales of the second book so much it affected the physical print run of her third book! I suggest checking it out.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - I went and found this and it's heartnreaking. All that work..! And the "fans" who were hurt and bewildered that they couldn't access pirated copies of the fourth book in the series and actually had to pay to read instead. I'm on my third novel; I know how much work goes into them and I'm honestly considering not trying to get published. As with all creative work, the product is very much wanted by all and sundry. They just don't pay for it.

Bleh.

OP - I'm glad you're feeling better but please don't pirate. Use Project Gutenberg instead, or your library's ebook system. Public Lending Right exists in many countries and channels some money to the creators.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair and present the opposing view, Neil Gaiman has said more than once that he's fine with piracy because there's a direct correlation between "places his books are most pirated" and "places his books sell the best". Same reason Baen books offers so many free ebooks..."psst,hey, kid, first hit is free!"

da

[(Anonymous)]

i honestly don't think Neil Gaiman has to worry overmuch about his sales numbers

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da

Neil Gaiman is set for life and has been for a long time. I wouldn't be surprised if he's out of touch with the nuts-and-bolts dollar figures of what up-and-coming and midlist writers struggle with. The industry has changed a LOT since he was young and not a Big Name yet.

MS's point was that pirating hurts the industry collectively so much that there are many books that will never be published at all because of the illusion that the authors/series aren't popular because sales are tanking. Sales are the measure (and that includes sales to libraries, so library borrowings don't hurt writers the way piracy does). If millions of people are reading by piracy, that's invisible to the publishing companies. It's the same to them as if no one was.