Taking Pirated Copies Offline Can Benefit Book Sales, Research Finds
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...
