Students Flock to Web Sites Offering Pirated Textbooks

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Briefs, Case Studies, Papers, Reports
Author(s) and Contributors:
Author(s): Jeff Young
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Sources(s): Community
ParentTopics:
E-Textbooks

Abstract

A new survey of students found that about a quarter of them reported hunting for an illegal copy of a textbook from pirate Web sites.

The survey was small—only about 500 students from two colleges—but it is one of several indicators that downloading unauthorized textbooks is becoming commonplace at college campuses.

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