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July 06, 2006

 

Don't Fear the Pirate

Science fiction author and Boing Boing blogger Cory Doctorow explains why science fiction writers should be excited that theirs is the "only literature people care enough about to steal on the Internet." Doctorow has made his books freely available on the Internet - while also selling copies through traditional channels - and has been impressed by the results:
I've discovered what many authors have also discovered: releasing electronic texts of books drives sales of the print editions. An SF writer's biggest problem is obscurity, not piracy. Of all the people who chose not to spend their discretionary time and cash on our works today, the great bulk of them did so because they didn't know they existed, not because someone handed them a free e-book version.
The full column is available at Locus Online. For my thoughts on these topics a good place to start is here.

- C. Max Magee @ 5:41 PM ~ comments: 0 ~ Links to this post

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