A lot of the authors get close to nothing. I had a professor who wrote the text book used for the course. He said that he didn't care if people pirated it, beca

A lot of the authors get close to nothing. I had a professor who wrote the text book used for the course. He said that he didn't care if people pirated it, because he got something like $1.5 per sale. We could just buy him a beer if we wanted.