NYT looks into the growing trend of pirated print books. Many of them seem to be rip-offs of existing e-books. Some of them are manually scanned, though. Among the most active sites, Scirbd and Wattpad.
With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books – NYTimes.com
Ursula K. Le Guin, the science fiction writer, was perusing the Web site Scribd last month when she came across digital copies of some books that seemed quite familiar to her. No wonder. She wrote them, including a free-for-the-taking copy of one of her most enduring novels, “The Left Hand of Darkness.”
Neither Ms. Le Guin nor her publisher had authorized the electronic editions. To Ms. Le Guin, it was a rude introduction to the quietly proliferating problem of digital piracy in the literary world. “I thought, who do these people think they are?” Ms. Le Guin said. “Why do they think they can violate my copyright and get away with it?”
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