In the second half of 2009, piracy in Spain cost $6.28 Billion (5.1 Billion Euros) to content producers. Legal sales in the country during the same period were $1.97 Billion (1.6 Billion Euros).

Movie piracy accounted for $2.95 Billion and music piracy for $2.83 Billion.

Of the digital music market, 95 percent is illegally downloaded.

Of the movie market, 83 percent of all movies are illegally downloaded.

53 percent of all video games are illegally downloaded.

And 19 percent of all digital books are pirated.

Source: Pamela Rolfe, “Piracy cost Spain $6 bil in 2nd half of ’09,” Hollywood Reporter, June 1, 2010.

Pirated textbooks are sold in Thailand for prices of 10 to 15 percent cheaper than authorized copies, according to school officials.  Textbook providers are able to win competitive bidding contracts by using pirated textbooks to offer a cheaper price to schools.

The most pirated textbooks in Thailand are science, math, Thai and English language books.

Source: “Police seize pirated textbooks,” Bangkok Post, May 24, 2010.

From 2007 to 2009, police in Turkey seized 7.75 million pirated CDS and Movies, along with 1.6 million pirated books. The counterfeit seizures were the result of more than 9,500 police operations that resulted in over 10,000 arrests.

Source: “Turkish police seized millions of bootleg CDs, books,” World Bulletin, November 29, 2009.

A study by Attributor reported that 9 million digital books were pirated off the Internet in 2009.

Source:  Motoko Rich, “Report Finds 9 Million Illegal Downloads of E-Books,” New York Times, Arts Beat, January 14, 2010.

Popular file-hosting website Rapidshare receives requests to remove pirated materials on their servers for about 1 to 2 percent of all files each day.

Source:  Randals Stross, “Will Books Be Napsterized? ,” New York Times, October 3, 2009.

500 million pirated books are produced each year in China, with 40 percent of all books sold being pirated copies.

Source:  Clifford Coonan, “China’s publishers struggle to overcome book piracy,” National (UAE), August 27, 2009.

In India, between 30 to 40 percent of a book’s profit is lost to book piracy.

Source:  Sunitha Rao, “Book lovers are robbing authors of their due,” DNA India, August 11, 2009.

90 percent of all textbooks used in the English teaching market in Vietnam are pirated copies.

Source:  IIPA, “Special 301 Country Reports: Vietnam,” 2009.

As of July 2009, book piracy on e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle has not caused a large impact on sales.  This comes from an Associated Press report that states, “Piracy has been one concern for rights holders, although illegal works have yet to have a measurable impact on sales.”

Source: AP, “Pirated copies of Orwell books pulled from Kindle,” Google News, July 18, 2009.

In one month, textbook publisher John Wiley & Sons sent 5,000 notices to various websites asking them to take down pirated copies of their books from the site.

Source:  Motoko Rich, “Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web,” May 11, 2009.