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“The people who read pirated books are never going to buy your work anyway; it’s a totally different audience than purchasing readers. Even if…

— Sean Platt

“All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the price of this book, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable…

— Richard Bard

The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.

— Charles Stross

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very…

— Richard Curtis

Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device,…

— Scott Turow

“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.”

— Neil Postman

“If “piracy” means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator–as it is increasingly described today – then every industry…

— Lawrence Lessig

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music…

— Tucker Max

Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on…

— Ruth Glick

“The bad news is most of my books are ebooks and aren't for sale in brick-and-mortar bookstores. The good news is that most of…

— Jarod Kintz

The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work…

— Graham Swift

“rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access…

— Ron Kovic