Think of these Asian and African
pirate sites as a way to build your audience in countries where your book isn't sold yet... and when your book comes out in translation, or on a legit site, you'll have a fan base.
He's using
the pirate site as a way to provide digital samples, which saves him the trouble of hosting it himself.
Not exact matches
If Elsevier cuts off access again, German researchers who want to read articles from Elsevier journals, among them Cell, The Lancet, and Physics Reports, will have to resort to measures such
as interlibrary loans — or go to
pirate sites like SciHub.
You are welcome to use
Pirates Passions solely
as a dating
site, since it has all the major features found on mainstream dating
sites (e.g. photo personals, groups, chat, webcam video, email, forums, etc.).
Pirates Passions Affiliate Program
Pirates Passions is part of the Passions Network network of
sites, and
as such, is part of the Passions Network Affiliate Program.
As Japan has began supporting the genre as one of their important cultural exports, there seems to be no end of illegal uploading of anime and manga via pirating sites, mainly operated by the Chines
As Japan has began supporting the genre
as one of their important cultural exports, there seems to be no end of illegal uploading of anime and manga via pirating sites, mainly operated by the Chines
as one of their important cultural exports, there seems to be no end of illegal uploading of anime and manga via
pirating sites, mainly operated by the Chinese.
This serves
as a deterrent for anti-piracy agencies that scan the internet for books posted on file sharing,
pirate and torrent
sites and serves them cease and desist letters.
The government plans to ask for internet providers» understanding based on the thinking that,
as the
pirate content websites harm publishers and authors, the
site - blocking requests are acceptable under the «averting present danger» principle of Japan's Penal Code.
This is a big win for the publishing and entertainment industry and the popular torrent
sites such
as The
Pirate Bay and KickAssTorrents, which allow people to illicitly download books, movies and TV shows online without paying, are expected to be among the first websites in rights holders» sights.
In the courts and publishers eyes they are a
pirate site that is leveraging a court case
as their sole argument and it failed.
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.
That's how most
pirate sites work
as well, and it actually makes sense to go after their audience with the same model.
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.
We have found through our research that certain authors have been deliberately been leaking their own books to popular Bittorrent
sites such
as the
Pirate Bay and Demonoid.
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.
Every week,
as soon
as the new Shonen Jump comes out in Japan, groups of translators scan the pages, translate them into English, and post them on
pirate sites.
You only have to look
as far
as major Torrent
sites such
as Demonoid and the
Pirate Bay to see hundreds of thousands of downloads just in the last year.
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 don't think it was a terribly intelligent way to make money,
as this is Amazon, and they do actually pay attention to copyright, unlike the more notorious
pirate sites.
Pirates causes such
sites as Amazone to be out of Russia, so we haven't self - publishing, because it's useless here.
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.
We know of other best - selling authors such
as Paulo Coelho who deliberately encourage illegal piracy of their works by uploading their books to
pirate sites.
By flexibly lowering the price of your book and have your book available
as many places
as possible, readers will be less likely to depend on the
pirate's
sites.
Yep, I remember very well the misguided mob who went after
sites facilitating legitimate Kindle book lending between users (via the Kindle
site, NOT
as in
pirated copies) and I had to quickly back away from a couple of groups I was on because the mob wasn't even interested in hearing how misguided they were at the time.
Game Pick: «Corpse Craft» (Three Rings Design, browser) «A Collapse - like browser game by the developers of Puzzle
Pirates made
as an example game for their Whirled
site.
It has become widely known that scholarly publishing has been hit by its own version of Napster, with Alexandra Elbakyan's creation of Sci - Hub, which offers up to 48 million
pirated journal articles and,
as we have more recently learned, hundreds of university press books through its dark - web companion
site LibGen.
As the names of these
sites imply, they were used to share
pirated copies of games for Microsoft and Sony's gaming platforms.
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader shares an update on Artur Sargsyan, who owned the music -
pirating site Sharebeast
as well
as Newjams and Albumjams.
I spend years sometimes to get a listing only to have it
pirated onto a flat fee
site appearing
as though it is theirs.