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.
Not exact matches
It is estimated that up to 20 % of
eBook downloads stem from bit - torrent or
pirate sites.
Their own research suggests 90 % of all
eBooks that are listed on the
site are
pirated and that criminals are reselling books they download from torrent websites.
GoodEReader.com has published several updates on the state of spam and
pirated ebooks that have been flooding the online retail bookseller
sites, many of which are nothing more than PLR or outright stolen content, pasted into a converter, sometimes without even bothering to change the title or cover design.
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?
Due it its open nature, there were many
pirated eBooks on the
site, which gave it some negative press.
@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.
There are millions of authors who find that some of their
ebooks are available on
pirate sites and they are resulting in lost sales.
It is easy for
ebook pirates to purchase a retail copy and use programs such as Calibre to strip the Adobe DRM and make it available on Torrent
sites, forums or even underground subscription services that have fully functional Android apps to read the content or sophisticated web based readers.
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.
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.
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?
As some readers know, various online «
pirate»
sites electronically duplicate thousands of popular
ebooks from legitimate sales
sites, then make them available to readers — either free or at a nominal charge — without paying their authors for each downloaded copy.
As some readers know, various online «
pirate»
sites electronically duplicate thousands of popular
ebooks from legitimate sales
sites, then make them available to readers — either free or at a nominal charge — without paying their authors for each... Continue reading →
Plus
ebooks cost almost as much as real books, you are not really saving money on books when you buy an
ebooks - unless if you go to the
Pirate sites
I think what we may end up with is a matter of posting to the
ebook sites, preferably with DRM protected material, just to ensure that we get it out and available before the
pirates do.
Therefore, when anyone offers a free download of the
ebook for PC, I know for sure, immediately, that they are a
pirate site — and Blast them.
Entry can also be complicated at the published - author level, as we might need to submit a PDF or
ebook file, which could easily be uploaded to
pirate sites.
People download free
ebooks by the hundreds from both legitimate promotions and from
pirate sites.
Amazon customers will have to pay # 11.96 to pre-order it — but an
eBook and audiobook version are already available for free from the
pirate site.
Authors of
eBooks fight online piracy by teaming up to warn each other when titles are spotted on
pirate download
sites.