As e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle continue to rise, so follows the
publishing industry's worst nightmare: e-book piracy. For years e-book piracy
was the exclusive province of the determined few willing to ferret out mostly
nerdy textbook titles from the Internet's dark alleys and read them on their PC.
But publishers say that the problem is ballooning as e-readers grow in
popularity and the appetite for mainstream e-books grows.
