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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
This may be true but I think it was the exception rather than the rule. When I first started reading ebooks, I looked at a few pirated ebooks, and most of them seemed to be OCRd with little or no proofreading and not worth keeping. I haven't looked at any pirated ebooks in years, but my impression was that most of the pirates were no longer scanning print books, just removing the DRM from publishers' ebooks.
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Once again, define pirates. People who are grabbing someone else's books for profit, yea, they tend to put a minimum amount of effort into it. I see those books pop up every so often on Amazon. The hobbyists who are doing it because they enjoy doing it and try to put the best product out there.
I haven't followed all of that since Amazon came out with the Kindle, but back then, you saw very few books that were de-drm'ed copies in the various feeds. Maybe in the true pirate sites, but I've never visited any of those. One hears very little buzz about the pirate sites these days. It simply doesn't appear to be much of an issue in the Western world.