The rise of
the pirate eBook websites coincides with concern among consumers about the high price of legal book downloads.
The UK Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit has shut down
a pirate eBook website called OnRead.
Not exact matches
Their own research points to 90 % of all
eBooks listed on TC are
pirated and that criminals are reselling books they download from torrent
websites.
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.
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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.
There are millions of
pirated ebooks online and many publishers have begun to go after the
pirates and either shut them down or block access to
websites via an ISP.
Pirate websites received 300 billion visitors last year and
ebooks represent a small, but growing segment.
A cadre of authors thought that
ebook lending
website LendInk was
pirating their
eBooks, when it only helped facilitate the lending process that the authors had opted in for, when they uploaded their books for sale on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Only 1 % of the UK survey respondents claimed to engage in the shady aspects of
pirating ebooks via file sharing
websites.
The
ebook pirates went through great measures to constantly move their
websites to avoid lingering in one place too long.
During our research we found that authors are leaking their own
ebooks to
pirate websites and then capitalizing on the controversy surrounding them.
Just as
pirates and
websites including Napster undermined the music industry by putting music on the web for free, so the same is now happening with
eBooks.
They have asked Google to demote
pirate websites to ensure they do not appear at the top of web searches for consumers looking to find
eBooks.
These services monitor
websites for
pirated copies of
ebooks.