Making this specific man the poster boy for everything wrong with the publishing industry is... not it.
Okay, I skimmed through the article, and one major glaring issue pops up immediately In their discussion of challenges to the validity of this study the authors admit that all of the pirated copies in question are amateur scans of physical books
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Meaning the downloaded files aren't actually that close a substitute for the purchased product, and are often of objectively poor quality They admit that the situation would be very different with pirated ebooks
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...This is exactly what publishers and the Authors Guild say about ebooks and exactly why they have fought to slow the adoption of ebooks "Book piracy" as a concept is as old as scanners but everyone agrees it only became a hot button when people started trying to sell ebooks
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