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piracy</span><br>
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font-family: arial;">October 19th, 2011</span></p>
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alt="" height="116" width="150"></a>Occasionally,
the topic of ebook piracy generates some press,
though not as often as you might expect. Last
spring, for example, there was a flurry of
interest around a <a
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8518755/E-books-drive-older-women-to-digital-piracy.html">British
survey</a> that concluded older women pirate
more ebooks than music. The topic came up again
last week at the <a
href="http://www.buchmesse.de/en/">Frankfurt
Book Fair</a>. Certainly if you search for
"ebook" on a BitTorrent index site, such as <a
href="http://torrentz.eu/">Torrentz</a>, you
will find a huge number of files listed, and even
if you weed out all the amateur pdf scans of books
by specifying a commercial ebook format, like
"ebook epub," you'll still see an amazing number
of files being offered for sharing. But some
people don't feel that ebook piracy is necessarily
a problem.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://news.yahoo.com/german-book-association-decries-e-book-piracy-135542491.html">German
book association decries e-book piracy</a>
(Associated Press) "Gottfried Honnefelder, head
of the group that represents publishers and
booksellers, said at the fair's opening news
conference that around 60 percent of e-book
downloads in Germany are pirated through
Internet sources such as filesharing sites."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jMuok4zpjRc4lkSBGFIAxkiOYkEw?docId=CNG.8d379ab35fae43da3f5517d7bf0e1907.21">Digital
piracy casts shadow over ebook world</a>
(Agence France-Presse/Kate Millar) "Thomas
Mosch, of the Federation of German Technological
Companies, believes it is a question of finding
a balance and not scaring off well-meaning
people willing to pay for legal content with
over-rigorous measures. 'You will never be able
to do anything about 10 to 20% of piracy,' he
said. 'But with 80 to 90% of people ready to
pay, the publishing industry should be able to
live.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/23/book-piracy-a-non-issue/">Book
piracy: a non-issue</a> (TechCrunch/Paul Carr)
"Perhaps it was because 'the kids' care less
about stealing books than they do about cracking
the DRM on movies [...], or maybe because the
book industry learned from what happened to
their audio and visual cousins. Either way,
devices like the Kindle, Nook and iPad - and
publishers willingness to embrace them - allowed
a legitimate, and lucrative, electronic
publishing industry to grow up before the
pirates seized the initiative."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/net-pirates-turn-over-a-new-leaf-20110812-1iqmm.html">Net
pirates turn over a new leaf</a> (The Sydney
Morning Herald/Linda Morris) "The publishing
industry well understands the first step to
preventing piracy is making sure all titles are
available as ebooks in the formats they want at
a price they can afford, Tim Coronel, publisher
of the leading trade magazine <em>Bookseller+Publisher</em>,
says."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Publishing
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">The German
ebook market makes up only about 0.5% of all book
sales, while in the U.S. ebooks currently comprise
about 9% of book sales.
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