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Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web

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Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web

Neil Gaiman tells the Open Rights Group how the internet and piracy affect books and publishing. He describes how free web copies of his books boosted sales.

HN commenters use it as the standard example of an author who found piracy helped rather than hurt sales.

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