Sentences with phrase «on ebook piracy»

It remains to be seen if Digimarc's digital watermark DRM will have any impact at all on ebook piracy.

On the ebook piracy front: Earlier this summer, NYT commentator David Pogue tried to buy The Bourne Identity in ebook form so his son could read it at summer camp.

She places the blame squarely on ebook piracy of her works.

Here is an excellent article by Tim Grahl on ebook piracy and book marketing.

Not exact matches

A number of authors have criticized the concept of free book giveaways or listing ebooks at substantially lower prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only higher rates of piracy, but also lost sales from readers who would have otherwise paid full price.

Well, this is one way to do it: Germany's Fraunhofer Institute is working on a new ebook DRM dubbed SiDiM that would prevent piracy by changing the actual text of a story, swapping out words to make individualized copies that could be tracked by the original owner of the ebook.

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.

Thematic chapters focus on critical policy debates and on key driving forces, notably ebook bestsellers and pricing strategies across European markets, self - publishing, regulation, piracy, and the expanding activities of the leading global players such as Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google, and Kobo.

So far I have bought all my books (paper and ebook), but everyday I am more tempted to go piracy, so that I can read the books I want on all my devises as many time I want.

While most felt that piracy was not a huge issue, what was important was the ability for readers to find indie authors» works and be able to read them without a lot of hassle or hoop jumping, as well as how to make it possible for readers to choose to read on a variety of devices — even those from different retailers — without sacrificing their existing ebook libraries.

Recently at Good e-Reader we wrote an article on the future of eBook piracy and how eBook lending clubs will facilitate their demise.

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.

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?

But aside from piracy, the biggest ebook - related threat to the Big Six is called Amazon.co [and] the Big Six's pig - headed insistence on DRM on ebooks is handing Amazon a stick with which to beat them harder.

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.

Recently at Good e-Reader we wrote an excellent article on the ramifications of eBook lending affecting eBook piracy.

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Thanks to all the people who have actually bought a copy of one of my books, I hope you aren't just giving me false hope to carry on and end up wasting years of my life for nothing (search eBook piracy is on the increase) I have put writing any more books on hold, keep it all inside my head and just make a living from teaching and being an examiner.

I am not saying that ebook piracy has no impact on sales, but I tend to believe it is a small fraction compared to software or music.

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.

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

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..

Where does this leave us on the issue of ebook piracy?

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.

Publishers» fear of digital media piracy is the reason most require DRM to be used on their ebooks (with no regard for the problems that creates for consumers or the artificial barriers it crEates in the marketplace).

I fear that stricter publisher limits on ebooks will cause an increase in piracy and «it's not worth getting the legal version» attitudes.

However, as subsidiaries of large media conglomerates, the executives who ran the big six had all been given their marching orders about the internet: DRM restrictions would be mandatory on all ebook sales, lest rampant piracy cannibalize their sales of paper books.

Increased market supply appears to be having an impact on Spanish ebook piracy, though it remains a widespread problem.

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.»

Adler speaks to the often cited issue of publishers fearing piracy as a result of ebook lending, a concern pooh - poohed as a sham issue by many critics of publishers on this matter.

Authors of eBooks fight online piracy by teaming up to warn each other when titles are spotted on pirate download sites.

Charge for eBooks on a sliding scale: One of the reasons piracy is so common in middle income and developing countries is that people just don't have that much disposable income.

There's a rather epic thread that touches on your claim that ebooks encourage piracy, so I won't touch that with a 10ft pole.