Thousands and thousands of book sales that never happened because readers got the stories for free.įor the moment, illegal downloading represents only a fraction of total book sales, but I guarantee, that’s about to change. Were I to track down every site on the web that offers free downloads of my books, I’m guessing the number would be many times that number. That’s 4,000 book sales I never made.Īnd that’s just the English titles, on just one site. The site tells you how many times the files have been downloaded, and at least 4,000 copies in English have been downloaded. I found over ninety files available, in a variety of languages, including the entire Jane Rizzoli series. To assess just how much illegal downloading is hurting me personally, I went onto one of the websites mentioned in the Publishers Weekly article ( ) and checked out how many Tess Gerritsen books were available for free downloading.
“No one will be able to do what I did thirty years ago Piracy has destroyed the industry.” And that, I fear, is what lies ahead for writers. “I feel sorry for truly talented young musicians,” he says. But these days, if you aren’t already a big name, the only real money in music is if you sell your tune for advertising jingles or write theme music for TV. He’s already a big name, so he can make a good living playing live concerts. He made a fortune in the music business and is still very much in demand on the concert circuit, but he says that with rampant illegal downloading of tunes, there’s no way he would be able to achieve that success today. A good friend of mine is a legendary singer/songwriter, a man who wrote one of the defining songs of our generation. I confess to being a voice of doom on this topic. Of the titles they tracked, the average number of illegal downloads was 13,000. We’re both addressing this topic because of last week’s, in which publishing losses from illegal downloads are estimated to be three billion dollars.
Over on Galleycat, it’s, which coincidentally matches exactly what I wanted to blog about. Maura Isles in The Apprentice (2002) and has gone on to write numerous other titles in the celebrated Rizzoli & Isles series, including The Mephisto Club, The. She introduced detective Jane Rizzoli in The Surgeon (2001) and Dr. New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen earned international acclaim for her first novel of suspense, Harvest. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The Surgeon: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel - Kindle edition by Tess Gerritsen.
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