Thread: Kindle e-Book piracy accelerates - from CNET
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Old 02-21-2011, 04:21 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by SensualPoet View Post
It wouldn't be the first time this author, David Carnoy, has written a load of rubbish about e-books and e-readers.

"I popped open an alert to learn that my book was being pirated--both as a separate file and part of two larger Torrents called 2,500 Retail Quality Ebooks (iPod, iPad, Nook, Sony Reader) and 2,500 Retail Quality Ebooks for Kindle (MOBI)." he writes. He goes on to value each time this is downloaded as a $10,000 loss.
Ah, but with 658 illegal downloaders of his book worldwide, that makes $6,580,000 he has lost. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!!!!!!!!!!!
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