Sentences with phrase «many pirated books»

Chat for social studies teachers who implement ideas from @burgessdave's Teach Like a Pirate book.

The fact that Google were not taking any active steps in removing pirated books created a media firestorm.

I believe that the issue was likely from people pirating books from the internet or downloading them through the Safari browser and importing them into iBooks.

What HC is really saying, «We want you to pirate our books because we're too stupid to know that people don't like jumping through unnecessary hoops.»

Part of our standard service is to help them decode the watermarks (if any, because the bulk of all pirated books are titles with DRM removed, not watermarked titles), so they can decide what to do.

Is it a valid to pirate the book, knowing that you WOULD pay for it, if you could?

If you REALLY want to support the creative arts, pirate the book then send the author a check for the retail price.

If you were sending pirated books to your kindle, would it not be rather easy to make a script that checked for this type of malicious code and remove it before sending to the Kindle?

You illegally strip the DRM in order to own the book, thusly breaking the TOS from whoever you bought it from, but are also pirating the book from the publisher.

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).

I mentioned it to an author once (on facebook), after I'd bought several of her books that were riddled with typos, and she got all snippy about «that's what happens when you read pirated books.»

So I pirate books or I don't read.

This resulted in a spike in sales when readers couldn't find the complete pirated book online.

Stiefvater's experience isn't uncommon, but for some reason, many who disagree with anti-piracy protections still maintain that pirated books are good marketing for writers.

This means you're trusting your customers not to pirate your books.

What frosts me though, is the people who RESELL those pirated books.

Vladimir Grigoryev, deputy head of the Russian's mass media agency Rospechat, told RBTH that many people don't know whether they are reading licensed or pirated books.

Don't pirate their books to make a statement.

I did, however, write a Pirate book for children some time ago, and I felt this was as good a time as any to remind everyone of it.

So what are the main reasons that people tend to pirate books on such a large degree in Vietnam?

The most pirated books internationally are business books.

There are no security measures that would curb people from uploading pirate books to the site and sharing them with their friends.

Why do you think people pirate books?

I don't pirate books, but I can't feel sorry for publishers who lose money because they REFUSE to lift geographical restrictions.

I find it interesting that two of the three reasons that people pirate books are addressed by the ability for public libraries to offer this format.

Do you think its right for people to pirate books, make copies and sell them for a profit, without paying the author?

Yes exactly, because DRM never hurts those who pirate books, as pirated books by their very nature have no DRM at all and are truly user friendly.

Another fact which emerged in the survey was that 31 % of the group that was surveyed admitted to having downloaded pirated books and reading it on their e-reader.

Doesn't this just tell us which books are most attractive to unscrupulous people who pirate books?

But, I won't deny that I pirate books, games, music, software that I might use.

Likely the same people who pirate the book, would have pirated it anyways.

It should only be used if you basically pirate books from the internet or are in development of ePub 3 books.

Pirating books is no different to expecting people for work for nothing.

So how exactly are pirated books being uploaded to Google Play Books?

Geo - graphic restrictions by booksellers is also one of the largest reasons most people cite for having to pirate the book.

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.

Have you vetted these sites to ensure that none of them are pirating the books, thus stealing revenue from the authors and publishers?

The problem is a growing number of people choose to pirate the books instead of paying for them.

Narkor: «When I can put a pirated book on my ebook reader, I have no need to go and buy it.»

@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.

This peeve doesn't involve copyright issues or philosophical concerns (of course I don't want pirated books to abound on the Net, nor do I want paper books to disappear) but, rather, readability.

in a way it's a compliment that people have started pirating your books!!)

After 10 days it automatically expires on your unit and is unavailable to you thanx to DRM protection to keep you from pirating the book.

People who pirate books love to spread this myth.

This is supposed to be a team of, hopefully, readers who really like your stuff and wouldn't pirate your books because that would do damage to your career.

Unless you decide to walk down the murky depths of pirating books, there is no way to buy them and transfer them to your reader.

Some think that cheaper books mean less reason to pirate books and that's true to a certain extent, but used e-books also mean that authors and publishers will no longer be able to prove that an online copy has been stolen.

Replace the phrase «I pirate books» with «I steal books».

With such an open source policy, chances of pirated books being used on the BeBook reader are ripe.

Yeah, visibility may help up and coming authors, but if someone becomes a John Grishman fan from a pirated book, they probably have his whole life work in a single file, with absolutely no incentive to every buy another.