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Book Piracy Is on the Decline

December 2, 2009 by Kirk Biglione

Finally, some good news for publishers.

All year we’ve been hearing predictions that the book business is on its death bed — about to be completely transformed by ebooks, then eaten alive by pirates. Yet, despite recent reports to the contrary it turns out that book piracy is on the decline.

Based on piracy loss estimates published by the International Intellectual Property Alliance and generated by the Association of American Publishers, book piracy dropped over 13% between 2005 and 2007 (the most recent year that data is available).

The numbers look like this:
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Filed Under: Piracy Tagged With: AAP, books, ebooks, IIPA, Piracy, publishing

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