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Originally Posted by charlieperry
Has anyone else noticed a rise in the availability of pirate books recently?
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I don't know why, but if I try to answer at the opening question after page 30, I feel I'm off topic....
I talk about Italy, and the answer is yes, definitely.
Here the publishers don't publish ebooks at all. They don't want to, and they also prevent the authors to do it themselves.
So there aren't legal copirighted ebook in italian.
But I have seen a list of tens of thousands of books, scanned, OCRed, proofed, and neatly formatted.
I tried the first Stieg Larsson title (don't know the english nor the original title), and I downloaded a zip file with a RTF, a MS word, a pdf, a lit and a txt version of the text. There were also a HTML with comments and critics about the book, the authors biography, and jpgs with covers and inside illustrations.
Far more than I got with the printed version.
And even more than I get from legal libraries.
So we are in a market where the legal items are completely absent, and the illegal ones (made by teenagers crews, as far as I understand) are not only present in huge numbers, but also of great quality and with a good added value (that's the point: added value).
How can the publisher compete with that?
Will he distribute a better product with more added value trying to give more appeal to the legal items or sue the boys and girls trying to cut them off the market?
Crews are growing, in size and in number.
And in time more and more series of books are being "published".
But I wonder how many of them are actually being read.
BTW: I downloaded the Stieg Larsson book, but I didn't read it (I read the p-book I got for my birthday instead). Am I a thief?
That's another thing: what about those pepole who download tons of files and don't use them? Are they criminals or just crazy? I know dozen of them...
