Cyber Piracy and Its Repercussions On Publishing Industry An Assessment of the Future of Printed Books Amongst Urban Youth

Abstract

With growing proliferation of Internet penetration all across the country, as a result of greatly newlineimproved bandwidths and a multiplicity of telecom services, the phenomena of Cyber Piracy newlinehas also rapidly expanded and become a malaise that needs to be tackled and curbed. This newlinestudy examines these growth trends in depth and in particular seeks to examine the urban newlineyouths prevailing attitude towards piracy, to what extent does s/he engage in pirating newlinepractices and whether there is a shift in reading habits as a result of the plethora of digital newlinecontent available on the net, pirated or otherwise. newline