Piracy is largely about new mega-sellers -- the Harry Potters and the Dan Browns. Books still in copyright but without huge illegal sales potential tend to be pirated small scale if at all and it's no real skin off anyone's nose (at least not until portable readers have a firmer toe-hold). I think many of my colleagues in the indudstry are a tad paranoid about ebook piracy. Let's face it, any self-respecting pirate can just as easily scan the treebook and put it out in rogue ebook or paperback form. N
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