bookinistika.com: Pirating site heads-up!
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It doesn't do much with author names, from the looks of it, although it can help to pair the book title with the author's name.
Which makes sense, really -- why would they want it to be easy for the author to find their books all at once?
Which makes sense, really -- why would they want it to be easy for the author to find their books all at once?
I did nothing!
Can’t vouch for Stephen though...
I used to issue DMCA all the time. The site whacks then down and then they pop straight back up. Honestly I could spend all day issuing them. I did use Blastee (I think?) during its beta phase when it was free and it was pretty effective. Honestly, these days, I just leave them to it
They have Goblin Moon and Hobgoblin Night ... interestingly, they charge more for my books than I do on Amazon. Still, I don't want them pirating my books. (And hah! Pirates always act like they are doing readers a favor by selling someone else's books "more affordably." They don't even have that excuse here.)
So one should not use one's primary email address when filling out the DMCA form? Why is that? Because it is a slight problem for me since at the present time I only have one email address.
So one should not use one's primary email address when filling out the DMCA form? Why is that? Because it is a slight problem for me since at the present time I only have one email address.
My assumption was that they would probably sell it to all the spam lists. Being such fine, upstanding citizens and all.
I'm wondering if that is how they actually work - they don't have the titles, they just order them for people for profit.
EDIT: Nope - see replies below.
Oh, oops, sorry. You can see how much I know about this stuff.
I suppose someone should check the other titles and see if they are also over-priced. That would be one indication. Of course they don't have any of my titles that were never published digitally. But I find it interesting that TQN isn't there, which was published digitally by HarperCollins. Maybe they didn't want to tangle with HC.
There are loads of Big 5 authors in there
Yes, and I just checked that they have The Hidden Stars (also over-priced) and A Dark Sacrifice, both HarperCollins books. So maybe I just didn't find The Queen's Necklace amidst a lot of similarly titled books.
Edit: Yes, I looked and they have it. Dang them.
Anyway, I shall tell them to stop, on behalf of myself and my alter-ego.
Edit: Yes, I looked and they have it. Dang them.
Anyway, I shall tell them to stop, on behalf of myself and my alter-ego.
Danny McG
"Anything can happen in the next half hour!"
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Well, I filled out the form and submitted it, and it flashed green at me, but I didn't get taken to another page that acknowledged the form had been sent, so I will have to wait and see if anything actually happened.
Edit: Thanks for the heads-up, Danny. I just checked out that site and I see they don't make it easy to report an infringement. So that will take a little longer for me to handle.
I hate pirates. Except, you know, the ones with eye-patches and cool hats, who sound like Robert Newton doing Long John Silver. The kind of people you meet on "Talk Like a Pirate Day." But the real pirates don't talk like that. They talk like they are good guys, doing a public service, when all they are is thieves.
Edit: Thanks for the heads-up, Danny. I just checked out that site and I see they don't make it easy to report an infringement. So that will take a little longer for me to handle.
I hate pirates. Except, you know, the ones with eye-patches and cool hats, who sound like Robert Newton doing Long John Silver. The kind of people you meet on "Talk Like a Pirate Day." But the real pirates don't talk like that. They talk like they are good guys, doing a public service, when all they are is thieves.
Luiglin
Getting worse one day at a time
Beeping hell, they even have mine on there!
Edit: using the same category selections off Amazon. I spotted a similar issue with the Aussie version of eBay. There it was a hard copy being sold. In that instance the eBay seller was getting them off Amazon and sending them on (for a small profit obviously).
Edit: using the same category selections off Amazon. I spotted a similar issue with the Aussie version of eBay. There it was a hard copy being sold. In that instance the eBay seller was getting them off Amazon and sending them on (for a small profit obviously).
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That’s okay though - you still get paid for the copy at the fair price you have set.
Anyhow! Badge of honour - you’ve been pirated!
Danny McG
"Anything can happen in the next half hour!"
Simple question for all the the proper writers, which maddens you the most..
A site that sells pirated copies of your books?
Or
A site that gives them away free?
A site that sells pirated copies of your books?
Or
A site that gives them away free?
Luiglin
Getting worse one day at a time
I've made it! The irony being, it's raised the profile of the work more than I have.
Both, if I haven’t given permission. There is no distinction - they are both stealing my work and my income. Most of the free sites make plenty of money through ads. Neither help authors.
Serendipity
A Traditional Eccentric!
They are only selling e-books... and a lot of them are cheaper than they are priced on Amazon... Amazon are losing money too!
PS I think I'll keep my latest publication paperback only for a little while longer!
PS I think I'll keep my latest publication paperback only for a little while longer!
But that doesn’t help authors when paperbacks for indies sell so few in comparison to ebooks
A lot of them are more expensive than they are on Amazon. If the book has been on a pirate site for a while and the publisher has lowered the price since then, the price the pirates charge ends up being more than if the book had been sold through an honest vendor. So when they say things like "you should buy from us because we have better prices" they are often lying. But what would you expect from an enterprise which in inherently dishonest?
As for the free books. Someone takes something I worked on for years, something they have no shadow of a right to, and gives that to someone else, appearing to be selflessly benevolent, but actually making money off of ads on their site—their site which no one would visit (and therefore no one would buy ads on) if it were not that the site owner was offering what they have no right to offer. So it is not only blatant theft but hypocrisy.
And it is not like they are modern day Robin Hoods taking from the rich to give to the poor. Yes, some writers are very wealthy, but most of those whose work the pirates take are barely getting by, while people who download the books ... well they are hardly starving in the gutter if they have the devices to read them on, are they?
As for the free books. Someone takes something I worked on for years, something they have no shadow of a right to, and gives that to someone else, appearing to be selflessly benevolent, but actually making money off of ads on their site—their site which no one would visit (and therefore no one would buy ads on) if it were not that the site owner was offering what they have no right to offer. So it is not only blatant theft but hypocrisy.
And it is not like they are modern day Robin Hoods taking from the rich to give to the poor. Yes, some writers are very wealthy, but most of those whose work the pirates take are barely getting by, while people who download the books ... well they are hardly starving in the gutter if they have the devices to read them on, are they?