Pirated eBooks?
September 4, 2009
The Christian Science Monitor’s Marjorie Kehe has put together a list of the top 10 pirated eBooks (e-books? Ebooks?) of 2009.
It seems like most people are downloading what they’re too embarrassed to buy.
Don’t look at this list if you want to believe that the Internet is feeding a hunger for a deeper kind of learning. The 10 books most downloaded on BitTorrent (a free file-sharing application) this year do not include titles by Victor Hugo or Emily Brontë (or even Dan Brown or J.K. Rowling).
Instead, with the exception of Leonardo da Vinci and Stephenie Meyer, they mostly focus on either self-help or sex (or in the case of a couple of titles, both).
