Others blamed greedy authors for trying to stop them. Many use social media to ask for tips when their regular piracy website is shut down when I contacted some, those who responded always justified it by claiming they were too poor to buy books – then tell me they read them on their e-readers, smartphones or computer screens - or that their areas lacked libraries, or they found it hard to locate books in the countries where they lived. Generally, pirates tend to be from better-off socioeconomic groups, and aged between 30 and 60. The UK government’s Intellectual Property Office estimates that 1 7% of ebooks are consumed illegally. I believe real life and the internet differ.”Ībena (not her real name) is one of millions of people who use book-piracy websites to illegally download work by authors they love. ![]() She’s not a thief, though, she says: “I wouldn’t take food or clothes without paying the people who made them, because they’re physical things. She has also enjoyed the entire Percy Jackson series without paying its author, Rick Riordan, a penny. She does feel a bit bad about downloading it illegally, she says, but her mother is a single parent who can’t afford to feed her voracious love of books. ![]() A bena, who is 18, recently read Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, and thought it was wonderful.
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