‘We’re told to be grateful we even have readers’: pirated ebooks threaten the future of book series

Stiefvater revealed that she is now writing three more books set in the Raven Cycle world, but that the new trilogy “nearly didn’t exist because of piracy”. “And already I can see in the tags how Tumblr users are talking about how they intend to pirate book one of the new trilogy for any number of reasons, because I am terrible or because they would ‘rather die than pay for a book’,” she wrote. “As an author, I can’t stop that. But pirating book one means that publishing cancels book two. This ain’t 2004 anymore. A pirated copy isn’t ‘good advertising’ or ‘great word of mouth’ or ‘not really a lost sale’.”

From ‘We’re told to be grateful we even have readers’: pirated ebooks threaten the future of book series | Books | The Guardian

November 7, 2017 by Uncategorized 0

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