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You assume that everyone reading a copy of the book, would also be willing (or able) to purchase it. That’s not the case.
by philipps 7y ago
You assume that everyone reading a copy of the book, would also be willing (or able) to purchase it. That’s not the case.
- acdha 7y agoThat’s too absolute: nobody is arguing that there’d be a 100% purchase rate but it seems highly unlikely that there will be no sales impact from having free copies available from a reputable source with very high search-engine ranking.
- Kye 7y agoSuch is the risk of absolutes... >> "nobody is arguing that there’d be a 100% purchase rate" The typical case against things like this does multiply downloads by sale price under the assumption each one is a lost sale. I've seen authors (obscure and prominent) scream about how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they're missing out on because they found their book on some torrent site.