05-18-2011, 04:05 PM | #1 |
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E-books drive older women to digital piracy
According to a new Digital Entertainment Survey, one in eight women over thirty five who own an ereading device have downloaded pirated ebooks.
"The picture across the entire e-reader and tablet markets is even more troubling for the publishing industry. Some 29 per cent of e-reader owners of both genders and all ages admit piracy. For tablets the figure rises to 36 per cent." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...al-piracy.html |
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It's hardly surprising, given the format wars and the geographical restrictions.
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05-18-2011, 04:18 PM | #4 |
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I haven't downloaded any pirated e-books but e-books can be expensive. I expect the numbers of "older women" pirating e-books to increase, especially as e-readers become even more popular and common place. Plus, I imagine it's easy to do. The publishing industry, like the record industry, is fighting a losing battle.
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05-18-2011, 04:21 PM | #5 |
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"Older women" over thirty five Excuse, I go to get my cane
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05-18-2011, 04:25 PM | #6 |
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Those elderly 35-year-olds are representatives of the first generation to come of age in the era of fairly universal home computing. And the ones who have ebook readers can be reasonably be thought to be heavily weighted to the tech early adopters. Those rickety old 35-year-olds have probably been downloading pirated content since their teens.
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05-18-2011, 04:31 PM | #7 | |
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I especially liked the article that used "grannies" in the headline - "grannies"? Seriously?
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05-18-2011, 04:39 PM | #9 |
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Hot mature pirate babes? Man, life keeps getting better and better
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05-18-2011, 04:40 PM | #10 |
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oh crap! am I an older man?!?!?
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05-18-2011, 04:42 PM | #11 |
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