The Publishers Association issued 115,000 legal threats to websites to stop them offering
free pirated books in 2011, a rise of 130 per cent on 2010.
Not exact matches
Claude Barras — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Banquise (Icefloe)» Eric Beckman — «When Marnie Was There,» «Song of the Sea» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» Carlos E. Cabral — «Big Hero 6,» «Frozen» Giacun Caduff — «La Femme et le TGV,» «2B or Not 2B» John K. Carr — «How to Train Your Dragon 2,» «Over the Hedge» Jeeyun Sung Chisholm — «Ice Age: Collision Course,» «The Peanuts Movie» Jericca Cleland — «Ratchet & Clank,» «Arthur Christmas» Andrew Coats — «Smash and Grab,» «Borrowed Time» John Cohen — «The Angry Birds Movie,» «Despicable Me» Lindsey Collins — «Finding Dory,» «WALL - E» Devin Crane — «Megamind,» «Monsters vs Aliens» Ricardo Curtis — «The
Book of Life,» «Dr. Seuss» Horton Hears a Who» Richard Daskas — «Turbo,» «Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas» Kristof Deák — «Sing,» «Losing It» Jason Deamer — «Piper,» «Monsters University» David DeVan — «Finding Dory,» «Brave» Walt Dohrn — «Trolls,» «Mr. Peabody & Sherman» Rob Dressel — «Moana,» «Big Hero 6» Stefan Eichenberger — «Heimatland (Wonderland),» «Parvaneh» David Eisenmann — «Pearl,» «Toy Story 3» Patrik Eklund — «Seeds of the Fall,» «Instead of Abracadabra» Steve Emerson * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «The Boxtrolls» Lise Fearnley — «Me and My Moulton,» «The Danish Poet» Mathias Fjellström — «Seeds of the Fall,» «Instead of Abracadabra» Arish Fyzee — «The
Pirate Fairy,» «Planes» Juanjo Giménez — «Timecode,» «Maximum Penalty» Andrew Gordon — «Monsters University,» «Presto» Jinko Gotoh — «The Little Prince,» «9» Eric Guillon — «Sing,» «The Secret Life of Pets» Lou Hamou - Lhadj — «Borrowed Time,» «Day & Night» John Hill — «Turbo,» «Shrek Forever After» Steven «Shaggy» Hornby — «How to Train Your Dragon 2,» «Rise of the Guardians» Steven Clay Hunter — «Brave,» «The Incredibles» Alessandro Jacomini — «Big Hero 6,» «Tangled» Christopher Jenkins — «Home,» «Surf's Up» Sean D. Jenkins — «Wreck - It Ralph,» «Bolt» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - ItRalph» Oliver Jones * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «ParaNorman» Mohit Kallianpur — «Frozen,» «Tangled» Max Karli — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Victoria» Michael Kaschalk — «Big Hero 6,» «Paperman» Karsten Kiilerich — «Albert,» «When Life Departs» Timothy Lamb — «Trolls,» «Mr. Peabody & Sherman» Gina Warr Lawes — «Zootopia,» «Kung Fu Panda 2» Sang Jun Lee — «Rio 2,» «Epic» Meg LeFauve — «The Good Dinosaur,» «Inside Out» Jenny Lerew — «Mr. Peabody & Sherman,» «Flushed Away» Brad Lewis — «Storks,» «Ratatouille» Carl Ludwig — «Rio,» «Ice Age» Andrew Okpeaha MacLean — «Feels Good,» «Sikumi (On the Ice)» MaryAnn Malcomb — «
Free Birds,» «Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron» Anders Mastrup — «Albert,» «When Life Departs» Moon Molson — «The Bravest, the Boldest,» «Crazy Beats Strong Every Time» Dave Mullins — «Cars 2,» «Up» Michelle Murdocca — «Hotel Transylvania,» «Open Season» Christopher Murrie * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «Coraline» Ramsey Naito — «The Boss Baby,» «The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie» Damon O'Beirne — «Kung Fu Panda 3,» «Rise of the Guardians» Hyrum Virl Osmond — «Moana,» «Frozen» Greg Pak — «Happy Fun Room,» «Super Power Blues» James Palumbo — «Ice Age: Collision Course,» «Ice Age: Continental Drift» Christine Panushka — «The Content of Clouds,» «The Sum of Them» Pierre Perifel — «Rise of the Guardians,» «Kung Fu Panda 2» Jeffrey Jon Pidgeon — «Monsters University,» «Up» David Pimentel — «Moana,» «Big Hero 6» Elvira Pinkhas — «Ice Age: Collision Course,» «Rio 2» Kori Rae — «Monsters University,» «Tokyo Mater» Mahesh Ramasubramanian — «Home,» «Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted» Ferenc Rofusz — «Gravitáció (Gravitation),» «The Fly» Vicki Saulls — «The Peanuts Movie,» «Ice Age: Continental Drift» Brad Schiff * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «The Boxtrolls» William Schwab — «Frozen,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Gina Shay — «Trolls,» «Shrek Forever After» Jeff Snow — «Over the Hedge,» «The Road to El Dorado» Peter Sohn — «The Good Dinosaur,» «Partly Cloudy» Debra Solomon — «My Kingdom,» «Getting Over Him in 8 Songs or Less» David Soren — «Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie,» «Turbo» Cara Speller — «Pear Cider and Cigarettes,» «Pearl» Peggy Stern — «Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood,» «The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation» Michael Stocker — «Finding Dory,» «Toy Story 3» Arianne Sutner — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «ParaNorman» Ennio Torresan — «Turbo,» «Till Sbornia Takes Us Apart» Géza M. Toth — «Mama,» «Maestro» Anna Udvardy — «Sing,» «Deep Breath» Wayne Unten — «Frozen,» «Tick Tock Tale» Theodore Ushev — «Blind Vaysha,» «Gloria Victoria» Robert Valley — «Pear Cider and Cigarettes,» «Shinjuku» Timo von Gunten — «La Femme et le TGV,» «Mosquito» Gil Zimmerman — «How to Train Your Dragon 2,» «Puss in Boots» Marilyn Zornado — «Old - Time Film,» «Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase» Sound Peter Albrechtsen — «The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki,» «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» Christopher Assells — «John Wick: Chapter 2,» «Spectre» David Bach — «13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,» «Suicide Squad» Sylvain Bellemare — «Arrival,» «Incendies» Miriam Biderman — «Don't Call Me Son,» «The Second Mother» Charlotte Buys — «Call Me Thief,» «White Wedding» Charlie Campagna — «Blade Runner 2049,» «Nocturnal Animals» Harry Cohen — «The Fate of the Furious,» «The Hateful Eight» Mohammad Reza Delpak — «The Salesman,» «A Separation» Yann Delpuech — «The Founder,» «Saving Mr. Banks» José Luis Díaz — «Wild Tales,» «The Secret in Their Eyes» Jesse K - D.
This is big money and
pirates are starting to capitalize on the demand for
free books by leverage advertising networks to rake in millions of dollars a year.
The sites that have these
free downloads of copyrighted material, the
pirate sites are not trying to provide
free books to benefit poor people like some type of charity.
We have
book pirates claiming that all content wants to be
free, readers complaining about ebook prices that are less than the cost of a movie ticket, and non-writers proclaiming that changing the name of a character or a few superficial traits makes them new and unique.
Pirate sites will claim that their
books are being given away for
free by legal owners so they can continue their dispersal of illegal copies.
This roughly means that the great DRM - debate isn't even a top three issue for most publishers, while opponents of digital rights» management, who argue against the artificial incompatibility of an ebook across multiple devices, have shown that DRM -
free books are no more likely to be
pirated than those that have impose constraints on them.
People found ways to download ebooks for
free — it includes self published
free books, clubs sharing one
book among many people and
pirate copies.
The value of those «used» e-
books will also plummet or disappear because
pirated books will be sold for almost nothing or given away for
free.
There have been conflicting reports over the years about how e-book
pirates are on average affluent who download pulp type
books for
free, erotica, romance, science fiction / fantasy and buy more literary works, but apparently this is not the case according to this report.
Pirated copies are
free, and available for just about any
book, so per the above Amazon will have to boot everybody of select...
Most people when they know that they're getting a
book with added content over a first draft which is
free, and that part of the sum that the author makes is going to a good cause related to the content of the
book, will likely go with the legit version rather than the
pirated one.
If the
book is essentially «
free» in a first draft, it has little value to a
pirate in any draft.
Most people
pirate books because of the money factor and most
book sharing clubs allow their members to lend and get lent
books for
free.
I love simply / silly games like the one featured here and it just makes me want to start googling for
pirated versions right now (just like those
free books not available to Canadians..
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.
However, Scribd is a company that couldn't make a profit even from giving away
pirated books for
free.
And the customer of the
pirate who gets your
book free today may well buy others from authorized outlets tomorrow.
Would the customer who got your
book free and read it have bought it, absent the
pirate site?
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I don't mind much at all when people
pirate the first
book in my series (especially when I've made it
free!).
Even if all
pirated books disappear
pirates will go back to legal,
free source of
books.
Pirating is already insanely easy, and the
free pirated products don't put limits on when or where I can read the
books.
Although maybe that's just a
pirate - site thing, with people treating it with contempt because they got it for
free, Comic
Book Resources reviewer Greg McElhatton was also pretty lukewarm toward the debut issue.
, write a great story, get distributed - drm inconviences customers more than
pirates - use google alerts to stay abreast of of search terms phrases used in your
book to watch out for plagiarizers - market your
book / brand, blog, fb, twitter - get beta readers - never - ending
book launch - study bestsellers in your category - highest earners write 150 - 200k words 60 - 80k are considered full length tho - top 50 bestsellers on smashwords average 100k words - write series (review of
free book)
It's like all those
pirate book sites that give our
books away «
free»... only they add malware so the «customer» trying to get a deal gets ripped off instead.
I genuinely DO NOT think all buyers of e-
books are going to turn around and «share» my
books thousands of times on a
pirate site, but the fact that more people have
FREE copies of my
books than my publisher has sold makes me a bit concerned about my ability to pay my bills every month.
The Humble Bundle blog instructed: «for two weeks, you can pay whatever you want to get... six digital, DRM -
free books,» including Doctorow's
Pirate Cinema.