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Illegal Photocopying

A textbook is like a long essay that would take you at least 1,500 hours to write. That's the equivalent of researching and writing eight hours a day, five days a week, starting in September and continuing, without a holiday, until the end of the school year.

While your book makes a contribution to education, as an author your reward also depends on your book being bought. Instead, a lot of people take advantage of your work by photocopying it -- illegally. It makes you feel like you've been ripped off.

Well you have been.

Photocopying textbooks is intellectual exploitation.