[ SECRET POST #2112 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2112 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There was an interesting study on this, and it's something that Neil Gaiman did a video on too; not sure how it correlates to music, but Gaiman found that the places where his books were being pirated were also the places where his sales were going up the most. Baen books frequently makes novels available for free on their website, and when they put a book up for free its sales go up rather than down.

I mean, no one pitches a fit about how libraries take money away from authors. I own a shitton of books, and I would have bought next to none of them if I hadn't read them at the library first. I have a lot of CDs I wouldn't have bought unless I heard them online first.

Just saying; it's not a 1:1 correlation.

[(Anonymous)]

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I had a coworker once who actually did pitch a fit about lost sales due to libraries, and how much income writers lose because people are reading for free and don't have to buy, and the libraries aren't obliged to pay royalties for each person who checks out the book, etc. It was ridiculous, and we all just sat there staring at her and then went onto something else.

[green_hellfish_of_doom]

your coworker does not seem to realize libraries get their books legally in the first place...

[(Anonymous)]

She wasn't arguing legality, she was arguing ethics. It was just still a stupid argument, IMO.

[green_hellfish_of_doom]

It is O.o

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. All of the CDs I've bought recently were because I first heard the songs online, decided I liked them, and then went out and bought the CD. So they actually GAINED sales from me due to piracy.

[fadeinthewash]

I mean, no one pitches a fit about how libraries take money away from authors.

Libraries actually have a right to loan out books, though, and it's done in a certain way even for ebooks (1 book for 1 patron at time, and some extra fair use coverage for back-ups/archiving/accessibility). Pirates have no such thing. The end result is not the only thing under consideration, at least not for IP suits/wank.

eta: and of course libraries do help book sales, contrary to what many of the public--and even publishers themselves--like to believe, but obviously you know that. *covering my bases*

[(Anonymous)]

Tor has removed DRM from all their books for just that reason: they believe people lending out their books leads to more people buying their authors.