And yes,
the arguments of the sales person were good.
Not exact matches
The Women Write About Comics article makes a credible
argument that the Vice President
of Marketing and
Sales, Tom Leonard, might not even a
person at all but a bot — one that specializes in multi-level marketing, which is often synonymous or indistinguishable from pyramid schemes.
There are
arguments made for self - publishing, and many
people will make them, but at this point, for the majority
of self - published authors, self - publishing primarily gains you access to eBook
sales.
He added: «There's an
argument that you sometimes see that «a download is not equal to a lost
sale, because that
person wouldn't have bought it anyway», and there's varying evidence on that, but it's very much a static analysis
of a dynamic problem, because if you normalise the practice
of pirating books, you erode incentive for
people to pay for them, so eventually,
people who would have bought them stop doing so.»
I am sympathetic to the
argument on cost — I hate spending money on suits (and am one
of those cheap, cheap
people who shops post Chrismas
sales once annually to refresh my work wardrobe — no $ 1,000 Armani suits here!)