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People who pirate large numbers of books skew numbers considerably. Let's use the hypothetical person with 40,000 books. If the average Dutch person has 117 books on their reader, that pirate with 40,000 books has 341 times the books of the average person. Let's stipulate that the statistic is correct that 90% of books are not paid for. If you have one person with 40,000 pirated books and 38 people with 117 books - all paid for - that would come out to 90% of books not being paid for. But it would be misleading to say that on the average reader, only 10% of the books were not paid for, in this scenario, 97.4% of readers would have paid for books. I am not saying this is actually the case, but the number of books pirates download do tend to skew numbers.
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