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A sixth of ebooks read online in the UK in 2017 were pirated, according to a survey by the Intellectual Property Office. Copyright infringement has been a big problem for the music and film industries and now it's hitting books. An estimated four million books were downloaded but not paid for in 2017. The author Joanne Harris, who wrote the bestseller Chocolat, tells us why downloading ebooks for free harms writers and the publishing industry. First broadcast on You & Yours, 11 March 2019.
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