Website offers more than 5,000 college textbooks in PDF format
Source: Jeffrey R. Young, “Textbook Piracy Grows Online, Prompting a Counterattack From Publishers,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 1, 2008.
Book Piracy Market Value: $600 Million
Book piracy is the unauthorized copying and distribution of books that are protected by copyright.
US Book Publishers lost an estimated $600 million to book piracy in 2006.
Source: Association of American Publisher, “Publishers Welcome USTR’s Annual ” Special 301″ Report and Results of China Provincial Review,” April 30, 2007, (accessed: September 25, 2007).
Pirated books in Nepal
Pirated books account for up to 30 percent of space in most bookstores in the capital city of Kathmandu.
Source: Post B. Basnet, “Cheapbooks? Thans to piracy,” ekantipur.com, July 5, 2007.
In 1985, market value for pirated books was $1 million
Source: Edwin McDowell, ” Publishing: A Blow Against Piracy,” New York Times, March 8, 1985.
25,000 to 30,000 pirated books available on Internet in 2004
Source: Sandeep Junnarkar, ” In the Virtual Stacks, Pirated Books Find Eager Thumbs,” New York Times, June 3, 2004.
50 billion book pages are pirated each year in Latin America
Source: Lucia Iglesias Kuntz, “Pirates and the paper chase,” UNESCO Courier, March 2001, (accessed: October 23, 2005).
