Reading in Rome

Time to Walk the Virtual Plank

An Exploration of Online E-book Piracy

Abby Coutinho

Let’s Navigate Online E-Book Piracy

Blog Entries:

• Humanizing the Author Behind the Screen

  May 10, 2022

• Getting the Government (and Google) Involved

  May 10, 2022

• Spammers & Scammers

  May 10, 2022

CBPP 5018

Humber College: Creative Book Publishing Program (Summer 2022)

Articles included in blog:

• The Problem with eBook Piracy Scam
• Ebook Piracy is out of Control and the Authors Guild is Mad
• ‘I can get any novel I want in 30 seconds’: can book piracy be stopped?

Other relevant sources for further information:

• ‘We’re told to be grateful we even have readers’: pirated ebooks threaten the future of book series
• Podcast: Batten down the hatches – How we’re combatting book piracy