India Seizes 20,000 Pirated Books in Raid

Indian police have confiscated more than 20,000 pirated books, including works by authors such as Arundhati Roy and Haruki Murakami, in a major operation aimed at dismantling a large-scale piracy network, publishers said on Monday.

The raids, carried out on March 15, underscore the extent of book piracy in India’s publishing industry and the country’s strong reading culture.

According to Penguin Random House India, the operation revealed a “sophisticated and large-scale distribution operation”. The publisher said it worked alongside police and other publishing houses, including Hay House and Simon & Schuster India.

“The nearly 24-hour operation targeted multiple warehouses as well as an illegal printing press,” Penguin Random House stated.

It added that the raid delivered “a substantial blow to an entrenched piracy network” and represented “one of the largest recent seizures of pirated books” in the capital.

The seized materials included titles by historian Yuval Noah Harari, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, leadership author Simon Sinek, and self-help writer James Clear.

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