“As an industry we’ve not had the situation that the music and film industries have gone through,” Lotinga said. A pirated copy isn’t ‘good advertising’ or ‘great word of mouth’ or ‘not really a lost sale’.”Īccording to the Intellectual Property Office’s latest study of online copyright infringement, 17% of ebooks read online are pirated – around 4m books.Įbook piracy is “a very significant issue and of great concern” to publishers, said Stephen Lotinga of the Publishers Association, which works to take down and block pirated ebooks links and sites. But pirating book one means that publishing cancels book two. “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. 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 we sold out of the first printing in two days.” Dozens of posts appeared saying that since they hadn’t been able to find a pdf, they’d been forced to hit up Amazon and buy the book. Fans asked if anyone had managed to find a link to a legit pdf. The forums and sites exploded with bewildered activity. ‘But pirating book one means that publishing cancels book two’ … Maggie Stiefvater.
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