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Originally Posted by slayda
To change the topic - I wonder why publishers who "own" the rights to books don't take advantage of the book pirates by downloading their pirated books, cleaning them up and then selling them to the public. The pirates can't complain to the legal authorities without admitting to "criminal" activities. The publishers would no be committing a crime since they already own the rights to the book and it would probably be less costly for them than scanning, OCRing, and editing. The "honest" public would benefit since a "legal" version of the ebook would be available. Seems like both a win-win proposition and an effective way to combat piracy.
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It might be worthwhile in a few cases, but many of the unauthorized ebooks are such a mess that it might be just as easy to start over from a scan. Sometimes whole pages are missing.
There's almost never anything new to say in these threads. I will note only that very few books that I've seen on the darknet aree available as authorized ebooks, but then again, very few books are available as authorized ebooks at all, so I suppose that doesn't mean much. I don't think book "piracy" is particularly on the rise, however, in the sense that I don't think the amount of activity has changed much over the past 5 years or so. It could start to change now with the Kindle and other "popular" ebook readers, but most people don't go fishing around in the darknet when they want something, so I don't think it's going to change all that much. Just my opinion.