Piracy takes 528 million a year out of the world of books

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 22 - Piracy removes € 528 million per year from the world, equal to 23% of the market value (excluding school and export), with repercussions for the country system of € 1.3 billion and 216 millions of lost tax revenues. One Italian out of three, over 15 years (36%), has committed at least one act of piracy and 66% believes that the hypothesis that illegal acts are discovered and punished is unlikely or not at all probable. It emerges from the research commissioned by the Italian Publishers Association - IEA in Ipsos which for the first time traces the dimensions of the phenomenon.
The annual economic damage caused to the publishing industry of various is estimated at 324 million, for 29 million copies sold less; 105 million for university publishing (4 million copies) and 99 million for the damage to professional publishing and data (2.9 million copies). The jobs lost in the world of the book are 3,600, also considering the induced 8,800.
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