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Textbook Piracy Grows Online, Prompting a Counterattack From Publishers

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Title:

Textbook Piracy Grows Online, Prompting a Counterattack From Publishers (ID: CSD5468)

Author(s):

Jeffrey R. Young (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Origin:

Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (07/01/2008)

Type:

Articles, Papers, and Reports

Abstract:

College students are increasingly downloading illegal copies of textbooks online, employing the same file-trading technologies used to download music and movies. Feeling threatened, book publishers are stepping up efforts to stop the online piracy.

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http://chronicle.com/free/2008/07/3623n.htm

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