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Originally Posted by pwalker8
BTW, piracy didn't start with ebooks.
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There was (is?) also something to do with paperback books that had their covers torn off. My guess is that the bookseller or wholesaler could get a refund (partial or whatever) for unsold books and rather than returning the whole book they could return the covers. My grandfather was a voracious reader of westerns and many of them had the covers torn off. Sometimes in older books you'll see something in the first few pages about if the cover is torn off you shouldn't have bought it or something.