(CBS) The publishing business is on a roll lately. But it could be doing about seven billion dollars a year better if it wasn't being robbed blind by pirate book sellers.
Pirate buster Ian Taylor told CBS News Correspondent Mark Phillips that author J.K. Rowlings' Harry Potter books are some of the most frequently pirated in the world.
It's Taylor's job to find the crooks already waiting across the globe to steal the next Harry Potter book, set for release later this month, and many others, and flog the pirated versions from Bangkok to Brooklyn to Beijing.
Posted by Madmaxime at June 7, 2003 03:36 AM