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My brother was a geology professor. He lived under the "publish or perish" environment of the university system. He spent years writing a text book in joint authorship with the head prof and then could sell all of 50 copies at a time. His readership was sharply limited. Even if he had been able to capture the entire US geology market, he would still have sold a limited number of copies, which he didn't get much of a royalty on anyway, considering all the glossy paper and graphics it included. Would any of the pirates out there write a book with a guarantee of making less than $100 a year off of it? Not only no, but hell no. We're not talking about a romance novel that gets cranked out in 3 months, but years of research, learning, drafting and writing. Piracy cannot be justified under any heading. Piracy=Theft. You're a pirate, you're a thief.
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