In the last week, I have discovered three download sites offering illegal downloads of the MythTV book e-book. If I can find three without really trying, I assume there are a lot more of them out there. This raises a question for which I don't have a good answer. Do illegal downloads of books increase, or decrease sales? I can see arguments either way, but I'm tending towards the belief that they don't increase sales.
Does anyone out there have any data which isn't merely anecdotal? Want to share it?
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#1 thaths
Cory Doctorow says that his problem is not piracy, but obscurity. But his books are an entirely different genre.
#2 Michael Carden
You left some important information out of your post. We need the URLs for the illegal downloads! How else can we work out how they will impact sales?
:-)
#3 Mikal
Trust me, if you search for torrents, they're not hard to find. Not that I'm endorsing that.
#268 jake graft
The source code for the Chap 3 script is not on this web site as promised, nor is it available from the Apress download file (nice zip file of empty directories). So I guess illegal downloads of your book are a good way to avoid some typing :>
Nice book, but there needs to be a few updates for 0.21.
Jake
#274 Allan
Try www.baen.com for a view on free books and sales