"As of the end of 2011 an estimated 20 percent of all e-books downloaded onto Kindles, Nooks and iPads were pirated. That's a 20 percent pay cut to authors, age

"As of the end of 2011 an estimated 20 percent of all e-books downloaded onto Kindles, Nooks and iPads were pirated. That's a 20 percent pay cut to authors, agents and publishers—a number that will only go up" Not everyone that download something would have bought it instead if there were no alternatives.