Z:gnu-www-ja-freedom-or-copyright--4cc643-Bestsellers can still do well/en

Bestsellers can still do well without forbidding sharing. Stephen King got hundreds of thousands of dollars selling an unencrypted e-book serial with no obstacle to copying and sharing. (He was dissatisfied with that amount and called the experiment a failure, but it looks like a success to me.) Radiohead made millions in 2007 by inviting fans to copy an album and pay what they wished, while it was also shared on peer-to-peer networks. In 2008,  Nine Inch Nails released an album with permission to share copies and made $750,000 in a few days.