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We’ve all heard about the plagues that face the music and movie industry with respect to digital piracy. Ever since the advent of MP3s, free music has been abundantly available to those who choose to download their music at no cost.

When people decide to get the free music at a torrent website or a file sharing platform, the end result is less sales for so many artists. It’s the same with the movie industry as the movies get recorded first by movie pirates before they are uploaded to platforms for file sharing.

Most recently, it seems like this problem has spread to yet another medium. All of a sudden, e-books are now being shared via this means and it seems that the issue may be growing.

So many books are being put in digital form and it is quite easy to get them by going to a torrent or file sharing site and downloading them illegally without paying anything.

Tablet PCs and the Kindle are pretty popular digital mediums that enable the proliferation of the books through digital means.

The publishing industry could be dealt a pretty bad blow by this activity; thus, folks should definitely stop and think about how illegal this is and what could happen.

Think about it this way – if this industry is dealt a big blow and the writers who do all the researching and writing expecting good sales in the end do not get them, then the world might have a lot less of good quality writing.

I think that just about everyone would agree that we’d be worse off for that, so the best course of action that one can take is to refrain from doing such things if they’re currently doing them.

The sales of e-books skyrocketed above $37 million in the second quarter of 2009, which ultimately means that the regulators are going to be forced to deal with this issue since the use of e-books will likely keep growing.

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