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Originally Posted by Quoth
Screenshots of PC & OCR or photo of eink Kindle and OCR.
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The vast majority of uploaders to pirate sites are never going to do that much work. They don't sell the books or get any money for them; they just share their files for a number of reasons, of which monetary gain is certainly not one. If Amazon makes DRM removal impossible or too convoluted, most of them might well give up. Commercial pirates won't, but those are the minority. Shadow libraries are mostly populated by ordinary folks, who buy or borrow books, remove the DRM and upload.
Edit: you might ask how I know this, of course. Because I did some research when I started to think about this. Previously I thought shadow libraries demand a fee or a subscription and operate for money; but it actually seems not to be true. They probably get some ad revenue, but the files they share are free.
There are subscription-based pirate sites too, but they're far less popular and not well known.