[ Widespread piracy of ebooks is coming up ]
http://www.themillions.com/2010/01/confessions-of-a-book-pirate.html
via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992595
Quote: Textbook, programming and technical manuals are all over the place and its very easy to obtain almost anything you want. I assume there are more sources for that material, and that their high price is a larger factor in people deciding to pirate them.