Book piracy boosts book sales
Every quarter, they begin to litter the network spaces with cries about how pirates and thieves users download song books from the Internet, thereby stealing money directly from the authors of masterpieces and, it’s terrible to think, ruin the industry and harm the cause of progress and education. Comments flow pages ...
At a press conference held in January during Midem, Lawrence Lessig cited data (which was found as a text on his blog for May 2005) about an experiment conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in South Africa:
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HSRC is engaged in the publication and sales of a large number of books with research in the humanities. After they started distributing electronic versions for free online, and people who wanted to have a “physical copy” of the book were offered to buy high-quality paper copies, sales (sales turnover) grew by 300% (TRISTS) percent.
And here is the latest:
“The American book publishing company HarperCollins Publishers has come up with a method that will help increase sales of its books. On its website, the company will upload electronic versions of some books that can be read for free ...
Experiment HarperCollins will determine whether this way to increase sales. Practice shows that even with free access to the full electronic version of the book, users continue to buy works in paper. For example, this confirms Paolo Coelho, who opened the special blog Pirate Coelho (“Pirate Coelho”) and regularly puts there links to torrent files and other resources where you can download his books in different languages. According to Coelho, after he began to publish links to pirated copies of their books, sell legal copies have increased several times. the writer is inclined to see the merit of it pirated resources. Coelho is convinced that with the ability to download books for free, people have the freedom to choose. Most of the download if m liked the book, anyway then acquire a legal copy. "
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At a press conference held in January during Midem, Lawrence Lessig cited data (which was found as a text on his blog for May 2005) about an experiment conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in South Africa:
')
HSRC is engaged in the publication and sales of a large number of books with research in the humanities. After they started distributing electronic versions for free online, and people who wanted to have a “physical copy” of the book were offered to buy high-quality paper copies, sales (sales turnover) grew by 300% (TRISTS) percent.
And here is the latest:
“The American book publishing company HarperCollins Publishers has come up with a method that will help increase sales of its books. On its website, the company will upload electronic versions of some books that can be read for free ...
Experiment HarperCollins will determine whether this way to increase sales. Practice shows that even with free access to the full electronic version of the book, users continue to buy works in paper. For example, this confirms Paolo Coelho, who opened the special blog Pirate Coelho (“Pirate Coelho”) and regularly puts there links to torrent files and other resources where you can download his books in different languages. According to Coelho, after he began to publish links to pirated copies of their books, sell legal copies have increased several times. the writer is inclined to see the merit of it pirated resources. Coelho is convinced that with the ability to download books for free, people have the freedom to choose. Most of the download if m liked the book, anyway then acquire a legal copy. "
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/20253/
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