And even if you don't make it big, some sites pretend to
pirate your books so they'll get clicks from people, even if they don't actually have your books.
Not exact matches
The screenplay by Gideon Defoe (based on the first two
books in his series about these characters) gets far more mileage out of these characters when they are simply mucking about — getting into arguments about the best part of a
pirate's life, sailing while leaving behind red dots in the water
so that their progress can be seen on a map, and otherwise doing very silly things for no reason more than that they must.
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.
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.
They have one of my
books posted illegally,
so basically they're another file
pirate site.
So I
pirate books or I don't read.
So what are the main reasons that people tend to
pirate books on such a large degree in Vietnam?
Most e-reader owners are honest (many are of the older generation); they will not invest the time and trouble to obtain a
pirated copy of a
book if the pricing makes sense and if all
books are loanable (
so they can't be read while they are on someone else's e-reader).
So how exactly are
pirated books being uploaded to Google Play B
books being uploaded to Google Play
BooksBooks?
Pirates can lift
books right off fan fiction sites or Amazon,
so why would they want somebody's first draft?
Back in 2013, when I released my first novel, titled Quintspinner — A
Pirate's Quest, I knew
so little about
book publishing and marketing that I didn't even know how much I didn't know.
Pirate sites will claim that their
books are being given away for free by legal owners
so they can continue their dispersal of illegal copies.
So I read the
pirated one and give the real one as a gift, if I liked the
book.
Before anyone expresses concern that Amazon is now stripping
books from its retail website due to simply not thinking they are worthy, the terms of service for using KDP have always allowed the retailer to do
so, a right they have exercised in the past in regard to immoral, pornographic, and
pirated works.
Pirated copies are free, and available for just about any
book,
so per the above Amazon will have to boot everybody of select...
Expository texts, such as Carolyn Vaughn's Invitation to Ballet, Peter Chrisp's
Pirates, and Stephen Person's Saving Animals from Hurricanes, contain tables of contents, indexes, or other navigational devices
so that readers may read only the portions of the
books that interest them, making it unnecessary to read the
books cover to cover.
So if we indies command a piece of the market that large, we also share the attention of
book pirates.
So - DRM encourages
pirates to go after * your *
book, and discourages honest readers from buying your
book.
The argument spotted in the Facebook thread from one person saying they like to read,
so they should be able to
pirate any
book they want, almost had me beating my head against the desk.
The only time I will even consider
pirating a
book is when it is something
so obscure that it hasn't been published here and isn't available through any legitimate means — and I have to have a pressing need for it.
All it does is annoy customers — anyone who wants to «
pirate» your
book will do
so anyway.
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.»
I like physical
books a lot more than ebooks (I don't have a tablet or ereader
so the best I can do is a laptop, which is shit compared to paper
books)
so pirating ebooks would only cheapen my reading experience, excuse the pun.
It's like all those
pirate book sites that give our
books away «free»... only they add malware
so the «customer» trying to get a deal gets ripped off instead.
You will want your
book to be available as a trade paperback (this is a normal paperback of a standard size — Lulu also do larger, coffee - table style
books), as a hardback, and as a PDF (don't add DRM to your PDF — DRM doesn't deter
so - called «
pirates» and does deter actual readers).
Smashwords authors now supply 225,000 titles to Scribd,
so the number of unique
books pirated represents around 6 % of the total number of Smashwords
books, although the number of unauthorized copies, presumably multiple
pirates, represents almost 20 % of the total.
I have a passion for children's
books so it is hard to narrow down my favorites but a few would include Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon, Make Way for Ducklings, anything by Patricia Polacco, Miss Rumphius, any of the Stella and Sam
books by Marie - Louise Gay, Caps for Sale, Custard the Dragon, The Paper Bag Princess, any
Pirate Pete
book, Ladybug Girl series, and
so much more.