Taking Pirated Copies Offline Can Benefit Book Sales, Research FindsErnesto Van der Sar, 04 Aug 08:33 PM Faced with the growing popularity of 'pirat
 | Faced with the growing popularity of 'pirate' libraries such as Z-Library and Anna's Archive, book publishers have ramped up their anti-piracy efforts. This year alone, Google has processed hundreds of millions of takedown requests on behalf of publishers, at a frequency we have never seen before. The same publishers also target the pirate sites and their hosting providers directly, hoping to achieve results. Thus far, little is known about the effectiveness of these measures. In theory, takedowns are supposed to lead to limited availability of pirate sources and a subsequent increase in legitimate sales. But does it really work that way? To find out more, researchers from the University of Warsaw, Poland, set up a field experiment. They reached out to several major publishers and partnered with an anti-piracy outfit, to test whether takedown efforts have a measurable effect on legitimate book sales. The study only takes printed books into account, since the Polish e-book market is...Read More |
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