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In April 2014 they made the company decision to market their services to the publishing industry and actively go after eBook pirates.

This type of malicious code is only evident so far in MOBI and AZW books downloaded from file sharing sites, pirate eBook sites and bittorrent.

Third, in the eBook realms people tend to pirate books they can not get locally due to geographical restrictions or the lack of an official copy (such as Harry Potter).

DRM mostly but I'm also guessing other facts play a part: market fragmentation, pirates don't read, lack of a clear winner in the ebook file format wars... but I digress.

One problem that Chen already foresees with his business model is preventing consumers from paying a few cents for a bundle of ebooks; in theory, authors may fear the allure this pricing model may hold for ebook pirates.

According to representatives of Eksmo, Russia's largest publishing house, up to 95 % % of all downloads of ebooks are pirate copies, something that results in the annual losses of $ 120 million US dollars.

I don't think it's fair to lump all people reading pirated eBooks into the same category, because many of them are victims of higher institutions of learning that force their students to buy course material written by the teachers and published in very small print runs, jacking the price of a hardcover textbook up to over $ 100 in many cases, with a new edition coming out every year, making any «used» book market obsolete.

In the digital age, there is no denying that people are pirate eBooks from popular torrent sites, but why should eBook lending clubs not care?

I have noticed that people tend to pirate eBooks because maybe the publisher version isn't available in their particular country.

For those who are reading pirated eBooks not in the public domain, I do agree that there should be some penalty, but instead of going after the downloaders, who in many cases never know if the title was originally a free one or not, I would suggest that it would be more expedient and easier to discover and punish the uploaders instead.

I agree with you that pirating is in fact stealing, but does the same argument not apply to publishers who «sell» their ebooks with DRM?

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).

If a judge finds Cox liable for the actions of users on its network, it will have major implications for the company, the cable industry and any ISP in the future who neglects to punish eBook pirates.

At this point, every book published should have an ebook version, and it should be available in every ebook store (If you only make it available at Amazon, or through iTunes, you have just given people a reason to pirate).

I have debated the semantics of this issue before, but advertising in ebooks is a viable way for the industry to mature and actually make money on people who pirate your books.

In April 2014 Rightscorp augmented their technology and signed up hundred of publishing companies and begun to actively go after eBook pirates.

@G Lynam: I hate to break the news to you but the pirated book sites are full of books that have never been released in ebook format.

The first thing to understand about ebook spam, pirated content, and PLR content (PLR books are titles that were written by one author with the intention of selling that title to other would - be authors who wish to put their names on it and sell it as their own original work, resulting in multiple copies of the same worthless book flooding the catalog) is that the various retailers and distributors who make ebooks available to the general public are all doing their utmost to protect the integrity of their catalogs.

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.

Some of the leading stories we are following include the recent spam and pirated ebooks appearing in the Amazon bookstore and what they need to do to curb the problem.

There are millions of authors who find that some of their ebooks are available on pirate sites and they are resulting in lost sales.

According to the Intellectual Property Office's latest study of online copyright infringement, 17 % of ebooks read online in the UK are pirated — around 4m books.

That is somewhat shortsighted... MOST good writers are publishing in ebook format simply because they KNOW that it is less expensive than publishing print books, and that a well produced and easy to use format is LESS likely to be pirated..

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.

But in reality, it matters not; eBooks, paperbacks, audio books, and hard cover books from every source — as long as their available to the public — can be pirated.

Add in the fact that many of the popular ebooks are available as torrent downloads on pirate sites and we're talking about readers who collectively, physically don't have the time to read more books.

And in my experience, eBooks make pirating easier than ever.

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A cadre of authors thought that ebook lending website LendInk was pirating their eBooks, when it only helped facilitate the lending process that the authors had opted in for, when they uploaded their books for sale on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

It seems to be working as the government and publishers in the last two years have invalidated more than 25,000 links to pirated ebooks and over 100 sites have been shut down.

Only 1 % of the UK survey respondents claimed to engage in the shady aspects of pirating ebooks via file sharing websites.

Now, all my print - only books are ebooks on pirate sites, even though Amazon told me that it never sold any of the illegally created «ebook» versions of my work (except to me) if Amazon lied to me, and if Amazon allows people who illegally bought illegal copies of my works which were created in violation of my copyrights (and for which I was never paid any royalties) do you think those re-sales will be legal?

Pirates can convert paper books into ebooks in 2 hours or less and your telling me that its going to take another year for 7 books to be converted and released in ebook format?

The ebook pirates went through great measures to constantly move their websites to avoid lingering in one place too long.

It sounds like you had no authorized ebook versions, so you need to sue Amazon for allowing distribution that resulted in pirated work.

The major concern in these discussions has always seemed to be the ease with which ebooks can be pirated, but libraries have been able to show the thought - provoking data on how circulations can actually increase sales.

Ebook pirating costs ebook publishers thousands of dollars in lost sales eachEbook pirating costs ebook publishers thousands of dollars in lost sales eachebook publishers thousands of dollars in lost sales each day.

It's also interesting to see Coelho pushing for his books to be free because free pirated ebooks of his books in Russia led to sales of his books growing insanely.

Many pirated ebooks are not currently and have not been available for sale as ebooks, though they remain in print.

By supporting pirated materials such as ebooks, you are supporting theft in digital form.

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In a sense, they're paying for pirated movies and MP3s with my (and probably your) pirated ebook files.

Has the eBook market been flooded with pirated copies of books that drag down the market and result in losses in profit to authors and publishers?

Studies have shown that pirating does not have a negative effect on eBooks sales in most cases since the people who do so are not planning to buy your eBook anyway.

There's been a * bit * of discussion in regards to Randy Cohen, writer of the «Ethicist» column at the New York Times who advised someone that had downloaded a pirated eBook of a Stephen King book he already owned that ethically he had done an «okay» thing.

The LitRes Touch project, he says, «was launched several years ago at a time when pirates operated freely in the Russian ebook market.

As we've reported and NPR recently noted, that while the Russian government has taken steps to reduce piracy in TV shows and movies, legislators have failed to include ebooks in their new laws, even though «Russia's largest publishing house says that up to 95 % of all ebook downloads are pirated.»

R.M. Prioleau stands firm in her belief that Scribd needs a stricter security measure to look into pirated eBooks that are illegally reproduced in PDF format.

It would be unheard of in Thailand (or any middle - income / developing country) for someone to be fined for pirating an indie author's eBook.