CNN reports that, on Amazon, Dan brown's latest novel,
The Lost Symbol sold more eBook than pBook copies in the first few days after it went on sale. They also report that, within 24 hours of its release "pirated digital copies of the novel were found on file-sharing sites ... Within days, it had been downloaded for free more than 100,000 times." See
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/01/e...acy/index.html for full details.
The article also mentions that the publisher did not release the eBook version of the Steven King novel,
Under the Dome until several weeks after the pBook version was available to help minimize piracy.
And the article further bstates "Recent statistics have shown that consumers who purchase an e-reader buy more books than those who stick with traditional bound volumes. Amazon reports that Kindle owners buy, on average, 3.1 times as many books on the site as other customers." and goes on to say that piracy may be a 'necessary evil'