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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Steal This Book: The Digital Version

Posted by on Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:27 AM

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FreakBits just released the (probably not definitive) Top Ten Most Pirated eBooks of 2009. Four of the ten books are, unsurprisingly, about sex. (Before Pornography — Erotic Writing In Early Modern England, anyone? Eh? Eh?) One of them is about Leonardo DaVinci (goddamned Dan Brown), three are how-to books (one computer-related and two home-related), one is a self-help book, and only one—the Twilight series, naturally—is fiction.

Except for the home-improvement books, these correspond pretty well with often-shoplifted books from brick-and-mortar bookstores, if you leave out the books that are stolen with the express intent to be resold to used bookstores.

 

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I'd like some freakbits...eh? eh? Know what I mean? nudge nudge wink wink say no more?
Posted by Professor Nudge on September 1, 2009 at 2:50 PM

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