The Last Bookaneer

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorFor a hundred years, loose copyright laws created a unique opportunity: Books could be published without an author's permission. Authors gained fame but suffered financially; publishers reaped enormous profits while readers got their books on the cheap. Those who pirated manuscripts were known as bookaneers. Matthew Pearl brings us inside the lost world of these doomed outlaws and the incredible heist that brought their era to a close.