effects of book piracy on book publishing industry
Over the last few years there has been a worrying increase in Book Piracy around the world. With the world wide web expanding everyday and the numbers of people using it increasing, this is a problematic period for the Publishing World. ... "In an age when manuscripts circulate in digital form and scanners can swiftly convert hard copy into email-able material, books are clearly vulnerable to piracy" Article a highlights just how easy it is for people to pirate books and Envisional found that "The majority of pirate copies were not cracked e-books" but in fact "electronic versions of scanned print titles that were not sold by the publisher in electronic form".