Piracy doesn’t pose an existential threat to book publishing in the way it does to the music industry. However, it’s still very much a problem, and one to which publishers… Read more »

Amazon’s perverse definition of “customer service for books” has turned into new, previously uncharted territory; they’re doing away with the “paying” part of shopping and just letting you just have stuff… Read more »

Eighty thousand illegal copies of books, worth about Shs1.8b or $750,000 U.S., have been seized in Uganda. This is an effort to take unlicensed copies from bookshops and printers, part… Read more »

Internet providers tracking customers seems like a free evidence collecting service for future law suits… Read more »

Much of the book piracy coverage in 2012 focused on China, while India, a country where studies estimate 20-25 percent of books are pirated, went largely unmentioned. This week in… Read more »

Publishers and authors in Zimbabwe say that the police are only cracking down on the pirated DVD trade, and ignoring the highly active illegal book industry. The AFP reports on… Read more »

To the surprise of many, not least the German political establishment, the Pirate Party has become a viable option, winning seats and quickly gaining traction with the youth vote. They… Read more »

J.K. Rowling has become somewhat of a anti-piracy pioneer. Her Pottermore-sold books all contain unique watermarks, which allow them to be tracked and identified if pirated. With the launch of… 1 / Read more »

On January 28th international bestselling author Paulo Coelho announced on his blog that he was participating in a “new and interesting system to promote art” by giving away works of… 5 / Read more »

A “2.0 edition” of Edward Jay Epstein’s The Hollywood Economist releases on January 24th. Below Epstein discusses why Hollywood is so intent on passing something like SOPA legislation. * * *… 2 / Read more »