The fight against book piracy is indicative of a wider problem: Even the most comprehensive laws don’t guarantee practical protection Alfred Romann explains
Propped up on the bookshelf is a copy of Amartya Sen’s The Argumentative Indian.
The tagline under the title proudly announces that the book includes writings “on Indina culture …” – the name of the country misspelled by whoever pirated the book in an underground press. The book was purchased on a Delhi street for a fraction of what it would cost at a licensed retailer.
India’s publishing industry is worth an estimated US$1.7 billion, according to the Federation of Publishers and Booksellers Associations of India. The Publishers Association in the UK puts the value of the market at more than US$2.5 billion.
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