Thanks for all the work you put into this!

Anyway, another (admittedly, less important) aspect of e-piracy which affects readers and authors (readers especially) is the *suspicion*. When some authors get a new rating or review on Goodreads or receives a fan-mail or a new follower on his/her blog, I’m thinking they might wonder how the person has heard of them, if the person is coming from these pirate-websites, if s/he has really purchased the book or just downloaded it ‘for free’. As a reader, knowing that there might be this doubt, this suspicion, is a bit frustrating when you sit down and think about it (I want to tell them, I bought it, I really did! Trust me! …Yeah, right. Wouldn’t work, would it?), and I would think that for authors it might make interacting with readers weird as well.

Thank you again.
Raine Delight

It is true that ebooks, and even most e-readers, arent available outside of the US at a legal outlet or website. In that case, the only way for someone who wants to read the book to acquire it is to download it from a torrent site.

Talk about foreign rights makes my head go splodey, but if books aren’t being legitimately offered online for purchase, how else do you expect people to get them? That said, I doubt Egyptian sheepherders make up the large majority of torrent users or own pirating sites.

Kirby: I’m glad you elaborated more on your quote. I’d never considered that side before you talked about it and I share your sympathy. I wish we could find a different way of getting our books to them without them resorting to pirating.