This study doesn't control for libraries at all. Poland is one of the many EU countries (like mine) where authors and artists in general can apply for state stipends. That data doesn't carry over to the US system that cleanly.
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In the EU, if your income is exlusively from art and your art doesn't sell well, you still have a stipend to fall back on, libraries PAY for the books they carry, and there's options for other unemployment benefits.
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In the US, if your income is exclusively from art and your art doesn't sell well, YOU FUCKING DIE. Not saying the study is bad, it isn't. But it measures what it measures. And asking authors to throw themselves in the fire to fuel the engines of the revolution is, again, not it.
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To be fair the study doesn't measure revenue or income in general, it measures actual book sales But also to be fair, this is a small study of Polish-language books in Warsaw (the authors admit that the Polish language piracy "scene" looks very different from the US one)
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Well, the most famous such anecdotal experiment is Maggie Stiefvater, which says the exact opposite (Stiefvater believes she saved her book series from being canceled by deliberately seeding a "piracy trap") https://m.facebook.com/notes/maggie-stiefvater-really-its-me/a-story-about-piracy/10154994010857036/ …
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Well... no, there's a whole saying "the plural of anecdotes is not data" All of us can just pick anecdotes until we have a collection we like that agrees with us, it doesn't mean anything
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Again, I mostly take the stance I do because it's the stance that author orgs take based on what their membership as a whole believes It's not even about empirical correctness so much as solidarity
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