Is Book Piracy Bad for Authors?

It seems our digital world is the perfect place for pirates to plytheir trade—copy someone’s book and offer it free to others.

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I’m not talking about stealing a book then selling it as one’s own—or,plagiarizing—just the increasingly popular piratical sharing of books.

It appears it’s nearly impossible to get any solid figures on how much piracy is going on; but, all indications point toward it being huge…

Should an auth...