Book Piracy: A Reader Gained, Not a Sale Lost

I’m going to be open and honest to start off: I have illegally downloaded music in the past.

I’ve pirated plenty of films too. Books? A few, yeah. I guess my excuse is that during my teen years, I belonged to an age-group where digital content sharing was just, well, both formality and normality. Receiving music files over MSN Messenger was just the way I grew my music collection, before spreading it to other willing recipients like some sort of beautifully sounding infection.

I don’t pirate so...