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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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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It was actually a pretty reasonable article, grammar mistakes aside. He was saying that a torrent could be
valued at as much as $10,000. Which is true, if you look the selling price of each book. But he then counters that by saying that people won't read every book.
The article is worth visiting just to see the Pirate Kindle picture.
The funniest part is this bit:
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As I've written in the past, the rise of the iPad has spurred some of the pirating, but now the huge success of the Kindle is also leading to increased pirating.
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I'm pretty sure Kindle (why are no other ereaders mentioned? they are also important) contributed to ebook piracy long before the iPad came along.