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Originally Posted by bucsie
To my experience, the quality of darknet books that are freely available - not on invite-sites - is about 50-50. Some are great, especially recently released ones (probably ebooks with stripped DRMs), but a lot of them are bad - OCR problems, conversion issues, watermarks etc. They are readable, and stealers aren't choosers... usually.
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If by stealers you mean people who read unauthorised ebooks, you couldn't be more wrong. They will often fix mistakes they find while reading and either "release" the fixed versions themselves or report the mistakes so that someone else can do it. With retail ebooks, even if you send the publisher a list of mistakes they will never be corrected.
The problem is with the file collectors. They won't pick up the fixed ebook because they think they already have it, so the error-filled version continues to circulate. And since there are more file collectors than readers, those are the versions that are easiest to find.