The fact that Google were not taking any active steps in removing
pirated books created a media firestorm.
Not exact matches
You can also
create an account with Blasty, which monitors internet content for illegal activity, can flag
pirate sites hosting your
book, and send take - down notices for you.
Despite the signed agreement from 1DollarScan that clearly states this PDF file can not be shared — and everyone knows how ebook
pirates follow the rules — the risk of individuals using the scanning service to
create digital editions of out of print
books and print - only bestsellers.
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?
There are several ways
pirates make money from stolen work, some
create websites where they sell
books directly, and at these sites there can be anywhere from hundreds, to thousands, of stolen
books.
For a relatively small amount of money,
pirates can convert any hard - copy
book into an unprotected text file, even if a legitimate electronic
book is never
created, Enderle says.
Or if you've written a
book on
pirates in the Caribbean, you can
create a game that asks your audience to identify some famous Caribbean islands (see sample below.)
I
created a Facebook advertising campaign and offered
books to fans of maritime and
pirate culture and Florida history.
You must
create a Take Down Notice for
pirated books!
German artist Ulla Rossek has
created a decorative and elaborately bound
book of texts copied and
pirated from the seminal works of others, including the likes of Walter Benjamin and Diedrich Diederichsen.