An employee of a local comics shop remarked that he could see people come in and browse new releases and comment that instead of spending their money on new comics, they would just download it later. This is exactly how the online piracy issue affects comics on the local level first. This is the type of downloading that goes past the 'lending of books,' as Neil Gaiman characterized it, and into the realm of robbing local retailers of revenue.
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