The latest Harry Potter was digitally pirated. What’s next?

Slashdot points the way to Slate where Steal This Book discusses how the speed with which the Naked Chef streaked across the Internet suggests that a new, disquieting era for the publishing world may be in sight. In an age when manuscripts circulate in digital form and scanners can swiftly convert hard copy into e-mail-able material, books are clearly vulnerable to piracy.