Digital eBOok piracy

–a product of the digital economy

presented by Zoe Zhu


Quite a few research has been done on music piracy, video game piracy, and film piracy but not so much on ebook.
While I was a graduate student at NYU, I wrote a story about the shutdown of Z-Library, the notorious eBook piracy site, in November 2022 and its comeback in March 2023.
Then, in my platform and society class I took at NYU, I wrote a research paper analyzing the informality of Z-Library using the walk-through method showing how Z-Library while operating under a highly informal model, tries to make itself seem more formal to the user.
I want to put these two project together to build this website so that people can know more about the different opinions on digital ebook piracy.

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