Online piracy

Putting your work online risks piracy, just as has happened with the music industry. Only it doesn’t seem to be doing the music industry much harm. Look at Apple’s iTunes which, after a bit of a painful transition is now making money as if it had its own mint. And as one writer so rightly said, obscurity is a much worse fate than piracy. Apparently Brazilian author Paulo Coelho thinks so too, because, since he’s been actively pirating his own books his sales have increased. I wonder how many he pirates? I wonder if it's true?

A spokesman for the London based Society of Authors said that “book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales.”
I think we should wait and see what the technology brings – what do you think?