During its first few days on Amazon, the digital version outsold the print, causing the US publishing industry to think that it had found its new business model. Then, just 24 hours later, a pirated copy turned up on Rapidshare, a filesharing site, and was downloaded more than 100,000 times over the next few days.
此書在亞馬遜書店開賣的頭幾天，電子書賣得比紙本書好，讓美國出版業以為「產業典範移轉」了，沒想到 24 小時後，個人分享網站如 Rapidshare 就出現了盜版，幾天內下載次數更突破 10 萬。