Thread: ebook piracy numbers
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Old 08-03-2010, 04:49 PM   #94
Krystian Galaj
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Originally Posted by sassanik View Post
Does anyone know of any articles that have ebook piracy numbers in them? As it refers to lost sales?

I question how many sales are lost through piracy. I am not saying that there are not lost sales. I simply question how many people who download pirated ebooks actually read them and how many would have bought them in different circumstances.

I know there are disks out there with 1,000 ebooks on them. Seriously how many people are going to read everyone of those books?

I know that ebook piracy on ebooks like Harry Potter result in lost sales, but that is more of a publisher issue since the book is not available in ebook format.

I suspect that DRM'd ebooks are more likely to be pirated, and ebooks that are expensive. With the smaller publishing houses that focus on ebook sales and are not DRM'd having fewer pirated copies.
1,000 ebooks is a very small number. Just one account I know of on Mediafire server contains over 400,000 different pirated ebooks, all available for instant download, and all this can be downloaded in less than a month without even purchasing any download privilege on Mediafire.

2-3 years ago overwhelming majority of pirated ebooks was scanned from paper, now, I don't know.

I see it's another of neverending series of threads about copyright violation/piracy. Rather than writing the same thing for the n-th time, I'll just ->link<- to my summary of why copyright doesn't make sense at all (and should be abolished) in one of the previous threads.
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