Sentences with phrase «with ebook pirates»

This week I took some time out from sipping a cup of coffee and hitting «send» on an email, and doing various other publisher - related tasks, and read the Guardian article by Lloyd Shepherd on his recent experience with eBook pirates.

Not exact matches

I could see where if you have a radically different product (print books) than the pirated ebook, familiarity with the author's work which was a function of reading a pirated copy could boost paper sales.

According to research by Dutch firm GfK, only 10 % of all eBooks on devices were actually paid for, with most of the digital books being pirated.

TorrentFreakHow Adobe DRM Requires People to Pirate Library BooksTorrentFreakCurrently, ebooks are often protected with DRM, which has become famous for causing problems for the customers who pay for those ebooks.

One problem that Chen already foresees with his business model is preventing consumers from paying a few cents for a bundle of ebooks; in theory, authors may fear the allure this pricing model may hold for ebook pirates.

I don't think it's fair to lump all people reading pirated eBooks into the same category, because many of them are victims of higher institutions of learning that force their students to buy course material written by the teachers and published in very small print runs, jacking the price of a hardcover textbook up to over $ 100 in many cases, with a new edition coming out every year, making any «used» book market obsolete.

I agree with you that pirating is in fact stealing, but does the same argument not apply to publishers who «sell» their ebooks with DRM?

Now, with access to an audience of millions and with the barriers to publication lowered to almost zero, the spam and pirated ebooks problem will grow more and more.

Anna I understand your frustrations with pirated eBooks but the problem is that current system is not fair to most readers either, because of all the restrictions we don't really own eBooks we bought and despite that we have to pay for them more than for paperbacks.

Not only would the ebooks be harder to pirate with the inclusion of digital watermarks, but this would allow users to read their purchased books on any platform with a web - browser.

With no signs of ebook piracy slowing, book publishers need to develop antipiracy strategies that start with a very basic concept: even pirates are consumers of your contWith no signs of ebook piracy slowing, book publishers need to develop antipiracy strategies that start with a very basic concept: even pirates are consumers of your contwith a very basic concept: even pirates are consumers of your content.

Or the scammers take a couple of those old - school pirate ebook copies, mash them together, and post it on Amazon — with their fake name as the author.

The first thing to understand about ebook spam, pirated content, and PLR content (PLR books are titles that were written by one author with the intention of selling that title to other would - be authors who wish to put their names on it and sell it as their own original work, resulting in multiple copies of the same worthless book flooding the catalog) is that the various retailers and distributors who make ebooks available to the general public are all doing their utmost to protect the integrity of their catalogs.

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.

According to research by Dutch firm GfK, only 10 % of all German ebooks on devices were actually paid for, with most of the digital books being pirated.

The ebook reader might be enjoying itself as the gadget du jour, but piracy in the ebook world could be on the up as a result, with 31 per cent of consumers who read ebooks admitting that they download pirate copies of books.

-LSB-...] an ebook bestseller before it was published by Century and the film rights bought by Ridley Scott, says that he and the pirates «are tight»; he loves his readers, «even the ones with eye patches».

The frustrating part is that Random House has drastically increased prices to libraries, under the guise of maintaining a relationship with libraries, while seemingly turning a blind eye to the pirating of ebooks.

With eBooks, those that don't pirate feel forced to shop at an ever shrinking selection of online stores that sell eBooks with many of these stores limiting their customers to their own custom E-ReaWith eBooks, those that don't pirate feel forced to shop at an ever shrinking selection of online stores that sell eBooks with many of these stores limiting their customers to their own custom E-Reawith many of these stores limiting their customers to their own custom E-Reader.

The major concern in these discussions has always seemed to be the ease with which ebooks can be pirated, but libraries have been able to show the thought - provoking data on how circulations can actually increase sales.

A number of prominent indie authors argue that ebook pirates are actually beneficial: They increase the audience for an author's work, providing him or her with readers who wouldn't have bought the book otherwise.

This long debated topic of authors being concerned with pirated eBooks arose once again the other week with a conversation with an author and seems to be still making it's way around the nether - webs on the tongues of writers and authors entering the marketplace.

In a sense, they're paying for pirated movies and MP3s with my (and probably your) pirated ebook files.

Instead of giving him the money that the ebook had earned, Amazon simply provided him with the pirate's contact information — their name, address, and e-mail.

Has the eBook market been flooded with pirated copies of books that drag down the market and result in losses in profit to authors and publishers?

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.

GooglePlay's greatest impact on self - publishing is its status as the preferred distribution channel for eBook pirates, while Apple has made little effort to make it easy for author's to do business with it, or to make many sales when they do.

A big reason is because of the lack of DRM (along with their frequent sales), but I guess I am an exception to their typical ebook reader who would seem to prefer pirated «free» copies.

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.

The rise of the pirate eBook websites coincides with concern among consumers about the high price of legal book downloads.