In a fast-moving world where technological innovation has brought new developments in e-books and online access to contents ofbooks, UNESCO Secretary General Irina Bokova has maintained that in celebrating World Book Day, it is important to remember that there can be no book development without consideration for copyright, especially when digitization further exposes books to risks of illicit use.
Nothing that will happen over the next ten years can undo the way the past decade's digitizationof entertainment--movies, music and books--has made it difficult or impossible to control its dissemination.