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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Except of course printed books don't stop it. Many (most?) pirated books are scan/ocr's of pbooks.
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That was true five years ago; these days, many pirated books are commercial ebooks with the DRM stripped.
Note that originally non-DRM'd books are somewhat harder to find pirate versions of than most popular DRM'd ebooks. It's like removing the DRM is work, and they don't want that effort to be "wasted" by only doing it for one reader, so they share the "liberated" file. However, non-DRM'd books, especially those that cost less than paperbacks, are apparently thought of as "buy it yourself" books.
Not always; plenty of Baen's books are bouncing around the torrent networks. (Erm. Some of which aren't pirated; Baen encourages booksharing.) But the more expensive and restricted a popular book is, the more likely it is to show up on the darknets.