[ SECRET POST #4867 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4867 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yikes.

It's nice that y'all buy the book if you do like it, but publishers still can find the pirated books and see the numbers and that's literally what decides if a book gets a sequel or the author gets a contract to write more or not. Authors don't get paid like movie stars do. Hell, 90% of authors don't get paid like EL James for her one crappy series, or like Patterson or any "pop fiction" authors who churn out ghostwritten factory---I mean "written by someone else and edited with his name on it in bigger print to sell copies" books.

It's nice that you buy the book after reading the first chapter or two, but the majority of the other downloads don't, and the publishing companies just look at the total numbers of what's pirated and go "well, we're just not making money so *shrug* no more books from this author".

[(Anonymous)]

You make it sound like if a book is highly pirated, publishers decide not to publish the sequel. That is not how it works.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT, but if a book is pirated instead of selling, publishers often won’t bother with a sequel. With something by, idk, Danielle Steel, they’re gonna publish regardless of piracy because they’re gonna sell enough that piracy can be written off. For authors with only a couple books that sold respectful but not fantastic numbers, enough people pirating instead of buying means their next book won’t get picked up.

[(Anonymous)]

That's.... that's exactly how it works.

Authors have gone on lots of rants about how pirated books = no new contracts for them.

[(Anonymous)]

That doesn't make any sense. It's not like they're gonna see that a book made X amount of money and think that's enough to publish more, then see that it was pirated Y amount of times and then suddenly change their minds.