As of 2012, there were over 100,000 Russian ebooks available on book piracy websites, compared to 60,000 book titles available…
According to the Chairman of a Nigerian publishing company, book piracy activities in the country causes $125 Million (20 Billion Nigerian Naira) in losses to domestic publishing houses each year.
In 2011, book publishers in India lost up to $387,000 (20 Million Indian Rupees) to book piracy. In the first three months of 2012, almost half that amount was estimated to have been lost to piracy. In the city of Bangalore, the Central Crime Branch believes that there are over 20 underground chains of book piracy groups who copy books and sell them on the black market. Up to 5 pirated books groups enter the industry each year. Authorities seized over 50,000 pirated copies of books in 2011 across the country.
During raids conducted in December 2011, authorities seized over 100,000 pirated books in Pakistan, with a majority of the book being seized in the city of Lahore. Every year, the government of Pakistan losses up to $221 Million (20 Billion Pakistan Rupees) in tax revenue due to the pirating of intellectual property within the country.
At the end of 2011, an estimated 20 percent of all ebooks downloaded on to e-readers were believed to have been pirated. In the United Kingdom, the Publishers Associated issued 115,000 legal notices to websites who were offering free pirated copies of books, an increase of 130 percent from the number of notices sent out in 2010.
In Peru, there are more pirated copies of books that are sold than there are of legitimate books. In addition, the pirated books publishing industry employs more people than the legal book industry and earns roughly the same amount of money.
The book industry association in Germany stated that around 60 percent of all e-books downloaded in the country are pirated.
Pirated books makes up to 85 percent of all sales in foreign language schools and universities in Vietnam.
Kenya Publishing Association reported that book industry loses $22 Million (2 Billion Kenyan Shilling) a year to piracy.
Due to a rise in e-readers and tablets, 0ne out of eight women in Britain over 35 who owns an e-reader illegally downloads pirated copies of books. The rate of piracy is much higher then other forms of entertainment, as one in twenty women over the age of 35 in Britain admits to illegally downloaded pirated music.