In one month, textbook publisher John Wiley & Sons sent 5,000 notices to various websites asking them to take down pirated copies of their books from the site.
Similarly, one single website was offering over 5,000 college textbooks in PDFs.
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Source: Motoko Rich, “Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web,” May 11, 2009.
Source: Jeffrey R. Young, “Textbook Piracy Grows Online, Prompting a Counterattack From Publishers,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 1, 2008.