[ SECRET POST #3979 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3979 ⌋

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Comments

[(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.