The Attributor Reports Rampant eBook Piracy

Attributor, an independent company that monitors illegal content use for its clients, has just released a report detailing rampant eBook piracy on file-sharing sites across the Web. According to the report, eBook piracy represents as much as $2.75 billion in losses to the publishing industry.

Attributor’s report indicates that 10,000 copies of every book published are pirated, and that piracy represents 10% of US book sales. Now, don’t those numbers seem a little high? Check out the full report (linked above) to see the results broken down in terms of the seven genres Attributor tracked, as well as other factors.

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