/lit/ - Literature

>>18790986
HOW are you going to LISTEN to books, anon?

>>18641522
>>18641550
This is something that's extremely difficult to find direct evidence of. We're talking about speculative sales. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and I suspect piracy takes a bigger toll than most people realize.
Since there's no way to gather direct evidence, we have to really on anecdotal evidence. I haven't paid for videogames or movies in years. I have a huge collection of both. Piracy is my main, really my only, source of entertainment. The industry would make so much money from me of piracy didn't exist.

On another note, stop putting blind faith in studies. Use your common sense, if you have any. The sheer number of published studies with flawed methodology, and results that cannot be repeated, is staggering. You can read what scientists say about the problem of bad studies being published. So, when you see a study with results that don't make sense, treat it with some suspicion.