#KINDLE E BOK DOWNLOAD#
If you set the average price per book at a measly $2, the worth of said download would be $5,000. E-books are small files and 2,500 of them can be packed into a single download (Torrent) that's only about 3.4GB. Rather, what's shocking, and what the publishers should be most concerned about, is the fact that a library of 2,500 books can be downloaded in a matter of hours. But that isn't what dismayed me so much (sorry, but when you're a little guy, you don't care so much about how much the big guys are losing).
Well, obviously, for big authors, this whole pirating thing presents a bigger problem-and a bigger loss. Even if I missed out on selling 200 e-books, that's a mere $100.
After all, if someone downloads 2500 books, what are the odds he or she is going to even bother looking at yours? I was probably only losing a few bucks, especially considering my e-book is currently priced at $3.99, which only leaves me with about 50 cents a book after the publisher, e-book seller, and agent, take their cuts. OK, so the use of the term "quality" was a reference to the formatting of the e-books and not the quality of the actual work, but for a moment I wasn't too bothered. I had the strange reaction of being both dismayed and weirdly honored that someone had selected my book to strip free of its copy-protection (DRM) and include as part of a collection of "quality" e-books, many of which were from very good authors. Over the months I've received news of the occasional blog post and tweets, but more recently I popped open an alert to learn that my book was being pirated-both as a separate file and part of two larger Torrents called 2,500 Retail Quality Ebooks (iPod, iPad, Nook, Sony Reader) and 2,500 Retail Quality Ebooks for Kindle (MOBI). Several months ago I set up a Google alert for my book, "Knife Music," to keep abreast of anything anybody was saying-good or bad-about the thing. The number of seeders and leechers for Kindle e-books continues to rise on The Pirate Bay.