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At the same time, much will depend on the ongoing battle with ebook piracy in our market — that continues to be a pressing problem for us.»

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The issue of ebook piracy, or digital piracy in any form, is the topic of many debates all over the world.

eBook piracy resulted in $ 350 million ($ 467.1 million) in lost revenue for the $ 3 billion Spanish publishing industry in 2012.

Many European bookstores actually sell eBooks in MOBI format and embed them with digital watermarks to curb piracy.

A high penetration of internet facilities in Russia (90 percent) coupled with rampant piracy has ensured there is enough demand for ebooks in the country.

In the era of digital publishing, ebook piracy, and open sharing authoring... [Read more...]

Online ebook behemoth Amazon has been fraught the last three months with a surge in book spam and ebook piracy.

The fact that ebooks themselves haven't led to increased piracy, and that industry studies have shown book pricing or free content also doesn't increase or decrease piracy, hasn't seemed to sink in with publishers.

The company operated under an anti - piracy / pro-book access model that licensed ebooks from publishers to be sold via photocopy shops across various regions in Africa.

This copying of physical books into digital formats for resale through piracy websites is a clear indication that the crime is rampant, but also that «security blanket» measures like DRM - encryption only stop honest people from using their legally purchased ebooks in the way that they see fit and best suits their reading needs.

We should point out, however, that ebooks are much more easily subject to piracy than print, and it concerns us that this may in fact have a significant impact on our, and authors», revenue, as meagre as it currently is.

This is JankoRoettgers at paidContent in New ebook DRM will change the text of a story to prevent piracy:

The plan is to reverse some of the long - held misconceptions that ebook lending could lead to increased piracy and decreased sales, a belief that has already been demonstrated to be false by Kobo at Digital Book World back in 2012 when Michael Tamblyn presented sales data for Suzanne Collins» Hunger Games trilogy.

Smashwords also had to increase its staff by 50 % in the last few weeks to keep up with its strict adherence to what it feels prevents the flood of ebook piracy, spam, and PLR titles from reaching the online retailer sites; these flawed - content titles have sparked a lot of contention among ebook proponents.

Some Japanese publishers have tried and most initiatives have failed as they have done poor market research (mainly not understanding international purchasing habits, poor marketing, or even worse have blindly believed previous eBook booms to include similar sales for manga or comics in general); while others have simply had their stances thaw out hoping to gain revenue streams or to prevent piracy.

Why is ebook piracy virtually nonexistent in the United Kingdom?

The point the distribution platforms are making is that reader consumers are going to get tired of sifting through the 99cent spam «ebooks» and get fed up with being duped by piracy masquerading as genuine titles, leading to a drop in ebook sales in favor of «good old fashioned» (re: reliable) print books.

All of the Big Six publishers who had previously allowed their titles to be borrowed through OverDrive's catalog to public libraries pulled their digital editions in 2011 amid concerns about ebook piracy and the interests of the authors.

They have bigger concerns at this point in the game then eBook piracy which they leave up to the digital sellers like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and others.

If a $ 15 hardback is offered as a $ 8 paperback while offered at a $ 6 or less DRM - free ebook (and downloadable in multiple formats at that, as is done at http://www.Baen.com) then there would not be so much the of the piracy issue for everyone to worry about.

But the ebook industry faces a severe threat, a new technique of spamming and piracy that may be enough to cause readers to abandon their devices and return to good old fashioned hard copy text («Spam and Pirated eBooks Proliferating in the Amazon Bookstore,» GoodEReader.com, June 17, 2011).

NeoMam Studios has produced a new infograph talking about the piracy issue in regards to eBooks.

I expect to see eBook piracy failing quite significently in 2012 when the lending services gets more exposure and matures.

One of the areas in which piracy has a stronghold still is no other than the rapidly rising trend of reading today — eBooks.

But even more interestingly, despite the eBooks» status as DRM - free and in spite of some initial piracy, it would appear that piracy of the books has actually gone down now that the books have been made available and that they are easily transferable to readers» devices.

From the very beginning when consumers were regaled with threats that digital would be the end of books, and when authors were assured that ebooks would lead to career - ending piracy, the two sides have waged battles, both for readership and in the courtrooms.

Some of the specific tactics that publishers and authors have tried in order to reduce ebook piracy have included DRM restrictions, which limit content to one specific device platform and eliminate the ability to share beloved books with fellow readers, and other professional tactics like the watermark that the Harry Potter ebooks contain, theoretically pointing out which reader posted them on file sharing sites.

Despite some criticism about piracy concerns, Redmayne countered with evidence that piracy of the Harry Potter titles is actually 25 % lower than when the titles were only available in print; additionally, he recounted incidences when the ebooks were actually placed on file sharing websites, but most were quickly removed when it became known that all of the ebooks are sold with an embedded digital watermark, essentially tracking the person who uploaded the pirated copy.

While there is no clear answer yet, opponents of Digital Rights Management have demonstrated that stripping away the «protection» on ebooks has actually led to an increase in book sales and a decrease in piracy, as consumers are often willing to pay for access to a book.

FutureBook describes how the mishandling of the file - sharing sites in the music industry actually led to missed opportunities for growth and sales, and the correlation between current attitudes toward ebook piracy is following suit.

In what has to be the winner of the Captain Obvious Award, new voices are speaking out against rampant ebook piracy.

Ebook piracy is not just popular in the United States, but is a global problem.

Do you think ebook piracy would have less of an impact on your sales if books had an easy way to incorporate in - book purchases?

There was also a massive bust in Ireland as two of the world's largest ebook piracy websites were shut down.

We believe that blaming the iPad directly for a surge in Piracy is valid, but it is not the only extenuating factor in the rise of eBook Piracy.

What is interesting about ebook piracy — and other forms of digital media piracy, to be honest — is that it's an age - old problem that seems to have no end in sight.

The ebook reader might be enjoying itself as the gadget du jour, but piracy in the ebook world could be on the up as a result, with 31 per cent of consumers who read ebooks admitting that they download pirate copies of books.

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Copyright issues for digital works were also given specific importance in the report, particularly in regard to how ebooks can be marketed and purchased while avoiding piracy concerns.

This rise in sales rank seems to be connected to the popularity of a recent ebook piracy counteraction with the launch of LitRes, who made ebook sales popular for the first time within the country.

This method of ebook distribution and sales has resulted in the much - discussed piracy and spam concerns that some say are apparently threatening to take over the Kindle store.

GoodEReader.com spoke with Emerson in an interview this week and discovered that this indie author has a rather unique take on the downloading and sharing of ebooks all across the internet, especially the rampant pervasiveness of piracy.

And ebooks, like movies, will see that the longer the delay in international releases, the more you encourage piracy.

Now that ebooks are eclipsing paperbooks in popularity, there is no shortage of ebook piracy going on.

With the drop in book sales, it is natural that authors and publishers, who have spent a huge amount of creativity and money into pushing a material into the public spectrum, are the most affected by ebook piracy.

All that said, I am not in favor of book piracy, but I am in favor of multi-format, fair use ebooks, and in trusting the consumer with a little common sense.

I suspect we'll see many such disconnects as books become full - fledged digital objects and applications — books that literally can't be read in certain countries, subpoenas on the pages people read, books that mysteriously drop content for some legal reason, books with viruses, books that die when a company dies, social books that abuse your expectations in some ways, not to mention rampant ebook piracy, unauthorized edits of a book, etc..

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Piracy would increase, and Amazon would muscle in with its own line of low - cost eBooks.

In this article, I'll go through why self - publishing an ebook is a good idea, how to format an ebook for publication, exclusivity vs going wide on multiple platforms, the specific sites available for self - publishing ebooks and what information you need, thoughts on pricing, and piracy.