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UK Publishers Association sets up anti-piracy website
The UK's Publishers Association will launch a new anti-piracy website in January 2009.
The ethics of pirated e-books
Over 250 people have commented on this blog post about the ethics of reading a pirated e-book of an out-of-print title.
Audiobook counterfeiter gets jail
In the UK, a man who made over £1 million selling counterfeited audiobooks on eBay has been jailed for 21 months.
Students scanning textbooks to file-share
'College textbook publishing has a particularly nasty problem on its hands,' says the New York Times. 'College students may be the angriest group of captive customers to be found anywhere.' And they'r...
Chinese crackdown on pirated textbooks
Provincial authorities in the Eastern Chinese area of Zhejiang have cracked down on the reproduction and sale of pirated books in the city of Hangzhou. The Bureau raided warehouses belonging...
Over 1000 pirated books seized in Indian raid
A raid on a Mumbai copy-shop has discovered over 1000 hard-bound coloured photocopies of medical books, including books published by Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, McGraw-Hill, Blackwell Science, Spri...
Abu Dhabi fights piracy
One hundred and twenty publishers known to have infringed copyright were banned from this year's Abu Dhabi Book Fair, in a demonstration of the fair's determination to crack down on piracy and build c...
Better than free
Tech pundit Kevin Kelly sets out his key principals for maintaining value in an online world where free seems to be the expectation: When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies ...
Piracy is 'caused by lack of choice'
A new survey of computer users in the UK has revelealed that a clear majority of people who download content illegally do so because they feel that 'legal sites just don't have the range of illegal on...
More publishers to phase out DRM on downloads
Penguin and Simon & Schuster are mooted to be the next big publishers to remove DRM on audiobook and e-book downloads, following the lead of Random House.
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