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by selestify 731 days ago
Do you have any data to back that up? Wouldn’t something being highly pirated indicate that there’s a lot of interest in a reprint?
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When _Traditional Archery from Six Continents_ went out of print, the price quickly got to 4 digits (feedback loop from Amazon pricing algorithms), so I put up the money for a second print run --- before I picked up the printed copies someone put up an illicit, unauthorized PDF copy --- it took several years for me to sell out the print run and get my living room closet back.
Sounds like you could have just put up a PDF copy yourself.
That was not a distribution mechanism which I negotiated or paid for.