College students looking for pirated textbooks as Fall semester begins
According to a report in the Chronicle of Higher Education, students are increasingly searching for pirated textbooks online.
A new survey of students found that about a quarter of them reported hunting for an illegal copy of a textbook from pirate Web sites.
The survey was small—only about 500 students from two colleges—but it is one of several indicators that downloading unauthorized textbooks is becoming commonplace at college campuses.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has been following the issue of college textbook piracy for awhile now.
