Right. And it's also worth noting her comment that those increased sales helped her sell another series to the publisher.
And for what it's worth, this is basically how the music industry beat piracy.
And for what it's worth, this is basically how the music industry beat piracy.
The publishing industry hasn't come close to this. In fact, they're most well-known for an illegal price fixing scheme.[0]
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/apple-450...
I did recently bin my Spotify subscription owing to privacy concerns but have returned - it's a pain to build up a library and then put it somewhere accessible (sometimes offline in an era of devices that aren't as big as the iPod I used to have) and I was optimistic to think that the value-add would be trivially replicatable. The weekly playlists are excellent too, so currently I'm prepared to pay a monthly convenience fee. If that changed too dramatically, I'd probably move back to piracy.
Netflix is a good example of faltering here where Spotify succeeded - I know 99% of the time that the media I want to watch isn't available on their platform whereas that's an almost non-event with the latter. Convenience is something people will almost always pay for.