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Originally Posted by eschwartz
THEREFORE I MUST HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE CASE WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE THE EBOOK, when I mentioned OCR...
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Strange pirate, that is.
This (your point about not having the book), to some extent, has been true a few years ago.
10 or so years ago, it was a real contest who would be first to pirate the newest Harry Potter book.
Would it take an entire day after initial release, until a pirated copy pops up? Would it even happen before the publishing date?
But those days for most products are long gone.
Exactly because of that "pirating contest" publishers aim for synchronous publishing dates globally. And for all sorts of media at the same time.
After all, they want to sell the digital product while it's still fresh, not when the market already is flooded with digital copies - often of surprising quality.
I haven't seen an OCRed copy of a new title for years, but admittedly I'm not that close to the hacking/pirating scene. But I'd be highly surprised if it really still would happen that way.