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Commentary: To Be Pirated or Not To Be Pirated…That is the Question

March 25th, 2010 No Comments

We may be witnessing the most momentous time for the publishing world since the invention of the printing press in 1440. Since the introduction of Amazon’s Kindle to the market in late 2007, the industry has been quite active, with e-books and e-readers emerging, and the financial impact of digitally produced content being fully realized.
Although [...]

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News: Pirates find easy new pickings in open waters of e-book publishing

December 2nd, 2009 No Comments

Digital pirates, who for years have tormented the music and film industries, have found a new source of plunder in e-book publishing.
With the words “dan brown lost symbol torrent” and a few clicks, anyone can download the American author’s latest bestseller free via any of hundreds of web links.
This Christmas, e-book reading devices such as [...]

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News: Book pirates in £5bn War of the Internet

November 5th, 2009 No Comments

The stakes are high. On one side are the internet pirates who are offering digital copies of the latest bestsellers such as Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol for free. On the other are the authors and publishers who are determined to stop the £5 billion-a-year UK books market going the way of the music industry, [...]

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News: Are we due a wave of book piracy?

October 29th, 2009 No Comments

The Kindle has landed. That is to say, the first Kindles are being sent out by Amazon today. Some may find their way into excited, sweaty palms by tomorrow.
It’s a big moment for the e-reader. While the US has had the Kindle for a while, many will be hoping its global launch will be an [...]

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News: Book trade can avoid music labels’ mistakes

October 22nd, 2009 No Comments

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Book publishers are better equipped to ride the digital revolution than the music industry was a decade ago, using options for selling and enhancing their products that their counterparts at record labels lacked.
The book trade is on the brink of a sharp increase in demand for electronic books, driven by devices like [...]

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News: Will Piracy Become a Problem for E-Books?

October 8th, 2009 No Comments

You can buy “The Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at Amazon.com.
Or you can don a pirate’s cap and snatch a free copy from another online user at RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile and other file-storage sites.
Until now, few readers have preferred e-books to printed or audible versions, so the public availability of [...]

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News: Publisher warms to Scribd store

June 15th, 2009 No Comments

NEW YORK — The publisher of Stephen King and Chelsea Handler will be selling books through Scribd, the online document-sharing
Scribd announced Thursday that digital versions of books by King, Handler and thousands of others published by Simon & Schuster can be purchased through Scribd’s online store. In addition, excerpts from thousands of books will be [...]

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News: Piracy Study Results Released

June 1st, 2009 No Comments

At BEA today, a researcher analyzed results from a pioneering study about book piracy on the Internet. Since fall 2008, Brian O’Leary, a principal at Magellan Media, has monitored pirated copies of O’Reilly Media titles.
Out of approximately 65 O’Reilly Media front-list titles from 2008, 21 titles have been pirated on peer-to-peer filing sharing sites. The [...]

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