{"id":6600,"date":"2022-08-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agencepdn.com\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2022-08-30T03:12:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:12:27","slug":"ebooks-and-piracy-students-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agencepdn.com\/en\/ebooks-and-piracy-students-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"EBOOKS AND PIRACY &#8211; STUDENTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6600\" class=\"elementor elementor-6600 elementor-6533\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cc0c004 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"cc0c004\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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elementor-element-6680862 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6680862\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we think about piracy, movies, TV shows and music come to mind, but there is one market particularly affected by piracy: the publishing industry, and more specifically, <strong>the scientific and academic publishing industry. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43b7880 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"43b7880\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div 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data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Ebook piracy around the world<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1dac838 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"1dac838\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cda1c48 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cda1c48\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to data from the Authors Guild presented at Book Expo 2019, in the United States, <strong>$300 million in publisher revenue is lost each year to online piracy.<\/strong> But the United States is far from being the only country affected by the phenomenon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Italy,<\/strong> for example, has studied the problem in depth thanks to a report in two phases conducted by IPSOS.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the COVID-19 pandemic, book piracy cost the Italian publishing industry<strong> 771 million euros and about 5,400 jobs.<\/strong> In 2021, a new report indicates that Italians performed an average of 322,000 acts of book piracy per day, a major challenge for publishing. <em>&#8220;In 2021,&#8221;<\/em> the report&#8217;s data tells us, <em>&#8220;35% of the population committed at least one act of piracy involving only commercial fiction and nonfiction books&#8221;.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76773a2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"76773a2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b8bb2c8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b8bb2c8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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data-id=\"db5e282\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Students: poor performers<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dbaea84 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"dbaea84\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2049d67 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2049d67\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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Some academic books even benefit from updates in electronic format more often than in paper format, and various enhancements to books, appendices, statistics or tables are often available only in electronic format.<\/p><p>The cost of textbooks is often very high, and students&#8217; resources do not always cover a complete bibliography for one year. The covid 19 pandemic also caused university libraries to close, and then to reopen with very limited access.<\/p><p>It is therefore tempting to save several hundred or even thousands of euros per academic year through piracy.<\/p><p><strong>Science, engineering, economics and law are the most affected &#8211; these are the fields where university books are indeed the most expensive.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a00b8ff elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a00b8ff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organization <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/educationdata.org\/\">EducationData<\/a><\/strong> has taken an interest in the issue, and the situation in almost 10 years has become even worse for students.<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A student spends an average of <strong>20%<\/strong> of his student loan on books<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The average student spends between <strong>$700 and $1500 per year<\/strong> on books<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A paper book can cost up to <strong>$400<\/strong><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each new edition increases the price of the book by an average of <strong>12%<\/strong><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 1977 and 2015, the<strong> cost of textbooks increased by 1,041%.<\/strong><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The increase in textbook costs <strong>exceeded monetary inflation by 238%<\/strong> between 1977 and 2015.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>37% of postsecondary educators do not know the cost<\/strong> of instructional materials when selecting them for their courses.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, as books go out of print, <strong>professors may allow or encourage students to illegally download copies<\/strong> of the books needed for their class; some students reported that professors have told them <strong>where to find them<\/strong> or even <strong>sent them the illegal links or files<\/strong> directly.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cd4ddf elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"3cd4ddf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1074445 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1074445\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the findings of the Italian survey cited above\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>81%<\/strong> of university students have committed acts of piracy<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>82%<\/strong> of respondents are aware that book piracy is illegal\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>64%<\/strong> thought they would not be caught or punished<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>39%<\/strong> said they did not consider it a &#8220;serious or very serious&#8221; offense\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Italian universities, an estimated 6 million copies of books go unsold each year\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>35%<\/strong> of the Italian population aged 15 and over have downloaded or received a downloaded book from an illegal source<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22a9345 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"22a9345\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f777c88 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f777c88\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/agencepdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spencer-DXobXpIa9_4-unsplash-768x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-6590\" alt=\"ebook-reader\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agencepdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spencer-DXobXpIa9_4-unsplash-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agencepdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spencer-DXobXpIa9_4-unsplash-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agencepdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spencer-DXobXpIa9_4-unsplash-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agencepdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spencer-DXobXpIa9_4-unsplash-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/agencepdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/spencer-DXobXpIa9_4-unsplash-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-844e702 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"844e702\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-abbb9c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"abbb9c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Consequences for authors<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4fe59fa elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"4fe59fa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cd5a144 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cd5a144\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Since 2009<\/strong>, when e-books and ebook piracy became popular, <strong>authors&#8217; incomes have declined by 42%,<\/strong> according to a 2018 Authors Guild income survey, with the median writing income now so low &#8211; <strong>just $6,080 a yea<\/strong>r &#8211; that the poverty level for authors keeps rising. Moreover, a 2017 Nielsen survey found <strong>that those who admitted to reading a pirated book<\/strong> in the previous six months tend to be <strong>middle class, educated<\/strong>, and either men or women between the ages of 30 and 44, with an <strong>average income of $60,000 to $90,000 a year.<\/strong> Some, strangely enough, seem to genuinely like and respect the authors they pirate; they even seem to think that putting authors&#8217; work online without paying them is somehow praise for their art. Book series are particularly vulnerable to piracy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a370a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"8a370a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-486d939 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"486d939\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>In our next article we&#8217;ll learn more about e-book piracy, and try to see if there are viable solutions to decrease it. <\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-035efbe elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"035efbe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b08ae43 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b08ae43\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-eed46bf\" data-id=\"eed46bf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ee35996 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ee35996\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the meantime, if your product is pirated, don&#8217;t hesitate to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/agencepdn.com\/en\/contact-us\/\">contact one of our account managers<\/a><\/strong>; 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