Sentences with phrase «of pirated books»

It is ridiculously easy for someone to start a publishing company and upload thousands of pirated books and piggyback on the success of established authors.

Second, the industry seems to equate the number of pirated books downloaded with an equivalent number of lost sales.

[1] Most publishers employ third parties to help manage the discovery and takedown of pirated books.

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.

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.

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

The plight of pirated books in Germany is attributed to the growing popularity in cloud based storage and file sharing websites.

He added: «There's an argument that you sometimes see that «a download is not equal to a lost sale, because that person wouldn't have bought it anyway», and there's varying evidence on that, but it's very much a static analysis of a dynamic problem, because if you normalise the practice of pirating books, you erode incentive for people to pay for them, so eventually, people who would have bought them stop doing so.»

«The number of pirated books increases every day,» it added.

Some of the predators out there cant» be stopped, like third world piracy sites, although I really like the people from Blasty who can take down most of your pirated books from torrent websites.

The point being made was that (a) DRM does not stop piracy (as evidenced by the sheer volume of pirated books) and (b) it massively inconveniences the reader.

Google Play Books has been a notable cesspool, with hundreds of fake publishers and pseudo authors uploading thousands of pirate books.