For one thing, digital publishers have the same problem that record labels do: piracy This is not new and it existed before the e-book publishing started to gr

For one thing, digital publishers have the same problem that record labels do: piracy This is not new and it existed before the e-book publishing started to grow. I remember reading a digital edition of the Lord of the Rings 15 years ago. Found it on the 'net. Somebody OCRed the paperback. This is still happening. What helps the publishers is that with the new reading devices it's easier to buy an original e-book than pirate it. What doesn't help them is that many times the original e-book you buy is actually worse than the one OCRed by the fans. I saw original e-books that lack images or they offer only low-res versions, while the pirated one looks better and contains every image at high resolution.