Amazon's Kindle

For those who feel few qualms about violating copyright laws, stealing books for Amazon's ebook Kindle is about as simple as stealing music online.

Tens of thousands of newly released books are parked right next to pirated music and movies on sites like BitTorrent. And it's simple to get those pirated oeuvres onto a Kindle reader, according to TechCrunch.

Kindle reads text and Word files in addition to the proprietary format created by Mobipocket, a company Amazon acquired in 2005.

Most any format an ebook comes in can be converted to .txt, so users can theoretically join torrents and download ebooks regardless of format.