According to a report in the Chronicle of Higher Education, students are increasingly searching for pirated textbooks online. Form The Chronicle: 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 [...]

Source: Jeffrey R. Young, “Textbook Piracy Grows Online, Prompting a Counterattack From Publishers,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 1, 2008.

Earlier this month, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on the story of college students pirating textbooks.  The New York Times adds to the discussion through story this weekend on how publishers may fight back against textbook piracy.  From the NY Times Digital Domain: Compared with music publishers, textbook publishers have been relatively protected from piracy by the [...]

College students around the United States are pirating textbooks, leading book publishers to step up enforcement. From the Chronicle of Higher Education: College students are increasingly downloading illegal copies of textbooks online, employing the same file-trading technologies used to download music and movies. Feeling threatened, book publishers are stepping up efforts to stop the online piracy. One Web [...]

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 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.

Source: Edwin McDowell, ” Publishing: A Blow Against Piracy,” New York Times, March 8, 1985.

Source: Sandeep Junnarkar, ” In the Virtual Stacks, Pirated Books Find Eager Thumbs,” New York Times, June 3, 2004.

Source:  Lucia Iglesias Kuntz, “Pirates and the paper chase,” UNESCO Courier, March 2001,  (accessed: October 23, 2005).

The Society of Authors, a trade union representing more than 8,500 authors in the United Kingdom, stated that book piracy will eventually lead authors to stop writing. From The Times: Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales. This is the bleak forecast [...]