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I usually can’t afford to spend £10+ on a new book, but I love reading … It’s not much different from buying from a secondhand bookstore, right? Either way, the writer gets no money.”īut overwhelmingly, most respondents owned up to pirating books not because of cost, but ease. One disabled and unemployed reader who asked to remain anonymous said: “I don’t think it’s morally wrong to pirate a book if you genuinely can’t afford it. Many reported starting to pirate books during university, when faced with bills for expensive textbooks – “I want to spend my limited funds on going out, honestly,” said one 21-year-old University of Warwick student – while others on limited incomes said their disabilities and mental health made library visits a challenge. One reader said he’d pirated around 100,000 books in a few hours: 'I doubt I’ll get through even a fifth of them'
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“Reading an author’s work is a greater compliment than ignoring it,” said one, while others claimed it was part of a greater ethos of equality, that “culture should be free to all”. Most regularly downloaded books illegally and while some felt guilty – more than one said they only pirated “big names” and when “the author isn’t on the breadline, think Lee Child” – the majority saw nothing wrong in the practice. When we asked Guardian readers to tell us about their experiences with piracy, we had more than 130 responses from readers aged between 20 and 70. Others blamed greedy authors for trying to stop them. Many use social media to ask for tips when their regular piracy website is shut down when I contacted some, those who responded always justified it by claiming they were too poor to buy books – then tell me they read them on their e-readers, smartphones or computer screens - or that their areas lacked libraries, or they found it hard to locate books in the countries where they lived. Generally, pirates tend to be from better-off socioeconomic groups, and aged between 30 and 60. The UK government’s Intellectual Property Office estimates that 1 7% of ebooks are consumed illegally.
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I believe real life and the internet differ.”Ībena (not her real name) is one of millions of people who use book-piracy websites to illegally download work by authors they love.
She’s not a thief, though, she says: “I wouldn’t take food or clothes without paying the people who made them, because they’re physical things.
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She has also enjoyed the entire Percy Jackson series without paying its author, Rick Riordan, a penny. She does feel a bit bad about downloading it illegally, she says, but her mother is a single parent who can’t afford to feed her voracious love of books.
A bena, who is 18, recently read Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, and thought it was wonderful.
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