eBooks: International Publisher Alliance Shuts Down Piracy Sites

From an Article By Katie Allen on The Bookseller:

“An international alliance of publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Elsevier and Pearson Education Ltd, has served successful cease-and-desist orders on a piracy operation with an estimated turnover of £7m.
Much more from Publishers Weekly and direct from the Associaiton of American Publishers
Publishers and others still have a LOT of work to combat ebook piracy. Many other aggregation sites specializing in pirated ebooks remain. A search at Xmarks, SimilarSiteSearch,, and SimilarPages will provide links to other sites like the ones taken down today.

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