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Originally Posted by gracie
The publisher's refusing to make books available to libraries is fueling a HUGE industry in pirated books.
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You're making what amounts to a scientific hypothesis. If correct, popular books from publishers that cooperate with Overdrive (Random House) get into the darknet more slowly than do similarly selling books from publishers that decline (Simon & Schuster). Maybe someone with a bit more time than I have could test it.
I presume that there are business analysts at big publishers that have already done this. Penguin statements late last year seem to indicate that, if anything, Overdrive availability speeds darknet availability. Of course, Penguin has a bias, so without independent analysis, we don't really know.