E-Book Piracy In Publishing World
We’ve all heard about the plagues that face the music and movie industry with respect to digital piracy. Ever since the advent of MP3s, free music has been abundantly available to those who choose to download their music at no cost.
Whether it’s through a file sharing platform or a torrent website, the activity of those who choose to obtain their music free hurts the sales of many artists. The same thing has afflicted many in the movie industry, as movie pirates record movies before choosing to upload them to file sharing platforms.
In recent times, e-books are now being shared by this same method and the problem continues to grow. This came about suddenly and quickly.
So many books are being put in digital form and it is quite easy to get them by going to a torrent or file sharing site and downloading them illegally without paying anything.
Much of this has to do with the fact that popular digital mediums like the Kindle and tablet PCs enable the proliferation of books via digital means.
This could potentially be a sharp blow to the publishing industry, and people should really consider their actions before taking part in such illegal activity.
Think about it this way – if this industry is dealt a big blow and the writers who do all the researching and writing expecting good sales in the end do not get them, then the world might have a lot less of good quality writing.
I think that just about everyone would agree that we’d be worse off for that, so the best course of action that one can take is to refrain from doing such things if they’re currently doing them.
The sales of e-books skyrocketed above $37 million in the second quarter of 2009, which ultimately means that the regulators are going to be forced to deal with this issue since the use of e-books will likely keep growing.
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