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Fear obscurity, not lending. I'm happy to see my book on BookLending or other lending sites.

Paulo Coelho has interesting thoughts on piracy helping book sales. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/01/paulo-coelho-rea...

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I'm releasing a book, and considering pirating a similar work to help gain awareness.

I've spoken to software devs who (kind of) liked their software appearing on filesharing sites - it was validation that they'd made something worth being cracked and pirated.

Coelho's points are definitely interesting but it seems to hinge on the digital/physical separation of products and how we currently value physical stuff ("to download my books [then] buy a hard copy", songs on the radio / buying CDs)... I guess that the real test comes when you're saying "download my book for free, then if you like it, download my book for money".

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