Online Learning Update

May 25, 2010

Online Books: Is the iPad Driving E-Book Piracy, and Does It Matter?

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

 By Charlie Sorrel, Wired

If you wanted to know how many pirated e-books are being downloaded, BitTorrent would be a good starting place. TorrentFreak, a blog that covers these speedy, P2P downloads, recently decided to check the numbers. The question: did e-book torrent downloading become more popular after the iPad’s launch? The answer was a resounding “kinda.” While almost none of Amazon’s top ten appeared on public torrent trackers, six out of 10 books in the business category were available. When TorrentFreak checked the before and after numbers, it found that the number of BitTorrent book downloads grew by an average of 78 percent in the days after the iPad went on sale. Even so, the numbers were still tiny compared to the traffic in movies and music.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/05/is-the-ipad-driving-e-book-piracy-and-does-it-matter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29#ixzz0ogquc2BV

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