There was a report on the radio (CBC-1, the national "serious news" channel) today that a recent scientific study indicates "pirating" of O'Reilly's technical manuals increased the sale of those manuals. (The digital versions were made availble legally months after the print versions were made available; the books that had their digital versions pirated showed an increase in sales after the piracy started, compared to both the pre-piracy sales of the books and the sales of books that hadn't been pirated.) O'Reilly sells somewhat-expensive technical books. I'll see whether I can find a link to the study.
Edit: http://oreilly.com/catalog/978059615788 ... ary-piracy]Found it - but they want $99.99 for a digital copy.
I suspect that scanlations only hurt the sales of crap titles - the good stories benefit from the publicity. The problem is that there are so many crap titles being licensed nowadays.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Edit: http://oreilly.com/catalog/978059615788 ... ary-piracy]Found it - but they want $99.99 for a digital copy.
I suspect that scanlations only hurt the sales of crap titles - the good stories benefit from the publicity. The problem is that there are so many crap titles being licensed nowadays.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012