What are the ways popular book publishers avoid online piracy?

It's impossible to calculate exactly how much revenue YA publishers and authors are losing to Internet pirates. .... read more

Because pirates are continuously devising new ways to engage in piracy and to avoid detection, it is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, for publishers to combat this piracy alone. The best way to effectively address online piracy problems is through the cooperation of multiple stakeholders, including the Federal, state and local government agencies that are responsible for enforcement. read more

But with crowdfunding - specifically assurance contract economies - where the art is forbidden from being released at all until the artist is paid up, it makes piracy truly impossible and therefore it becomes the only way to really make piracy stop. read more

The Bad: Despite the many ways to buy books at brick and mortar stores as well as ordered online or in digital form, the piracy of books continues. Considering The Help was the most pirated book of 2011, it doesn't seem like it's just teens who are engaging in these behaviors. read more