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One of my happiest moments as a writer was discovering that my book is on torrents. With seeds!

And people liked it enough after pirating to come back, hit the buy button, and tell me there’s pirated versions out there. <3

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I sent my family member a pirated version of their book and they quickly responded, "how did you get that? I don't even have a pdf of the book yet." It made me feel like they made it when I saw the book to download.

How is that possible? Who had access other than the author?

Probably just by scanning a physical copy and OCRing the scans or something.

yeah, my book is on torrents and on illegal file / book sharing sites. once I even saw a translated arabic version. still selling a few editions per month, not too bad for a 6 year old SEO book.

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