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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Obviously you haven't been to the Darknet in a while. Plenty of "ebookz" around, in both PDF and other, text-based formats.
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PDF and other textbook formats are not that great on eBook readers if you can get them at all. Plus the editing and typesetting on a lot of these books tend to be atrocious so running them through Calibre/other tools is a waste of time unless you are that desperate to read the book. I have seen books which look as if they were typed in by someone learning to type. Very different from a ripped cd. CD/DVD drives and sofware are more widespread than OCR's and scanning a pbook is much more tedious than ripping a disk.
For the moment, I remain unconvinced that the publishers are under the same kind of pressure that the recording industry was under.