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Originally Posted by bhartman36
But the chance of a paper book being pirated isn't increasing in the foreseeable future, because the technology hasn't advanced that much. when it's affordable for an individual of modest means to have a scanner that can take a 300-page book and scan it in a few minutes, then it's time for publishers to worry about paper books being pirated. I haven't heard of any such scanner, and I don't see it on the horizon. Scanning a book two pages (at most) at a time is still a very laborious process, and most people are going to have better things to do with their time -- such as watching paint dry.
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How do you believe the books that are being uploaded here are being turned into ebooks? How many ebook versions of The Lord of the Rings are out there in the net - and that's a book that isn't being scanned in an afternoon? If a book doesn't get scanned it's because it sells badly and doesn't generate any interest, not because the people don't want to spend the time to scan and to proofread.