Napster-Style File-Sharing Comes To The World Of E-Books

“You can buy The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at Amazon.com. Or you can don a pirate’s cap and snatch a free copy from another online user at RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile and other file-storage sites.” Will publishers suffer the piracy woes that have afflicted the music industry?