8 April 2019
Philip Pullman has described ebook piracy as "an offence against moral justice", as he and authors including Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and Margaret Drabble call on the UK government to take action against the "blight" of online book piracy.
Pullman, who is president of the Society of Authors, is one of 33 writers to have put their names to a letter to the business secretary, Greg Clark. The authors - who also include novelists Joanna Trollope and Malorie Blackman, poet Wendy Cope and historian Antony Beevor - say that illegal book downloads are becoming increasingly prevalent, pointing to research from the Intellectual Property Office that one in six ebooks read online in the UK are pirated.
