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May 31st, 2007

Stats on Pirated Books

By Robert Nagle

This is not the best indicator of ebook piracy, but I thought you might enjoy the screencaptures I did of recent ebook torrents found on pirate bay. I’m not linking to piratebay (because of the malware and suggestive ads), but here are worksafe screencaptures on flickr.

Most popular ebook downloads of two random days: Day One and Day Two. See a pattern? (Compare to the most popular downloads on manybooks).
Ebook torrents listed by size. Can you guess what the biggest ebook torrent would be? (Chris Meadows probably knows!).

Popularity: 3% [?]

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