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I just checked my Google alert and found a pirate site making a request for one of my books. Boy doesn’t this p_ss you off when you see something like this. I work hard on every book and can’t see offering them to the world for a free read.
From reading the comments on the different Yahoo sites from authors, everyone is getting a taste of how the pirates work in snatching up a book.
After e-mailing my publisher, he sent an e-mail filing the standard abuse report to the pirate site. The only response he received was that they’d received the complaint and were making note of it.
How can these “no face” people get away with grabbing a book and passing it around to anyone requesting it? There should be some way to stop them. If we don’t, we’re wasting our time writing and going through all the necessary work of publishing and promoting. In the end, we probably won’t make a dime if the practice continues.
Thanks for letting me get this off my chest.
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2 comments:
Hi Mary Suzanne,
You are lucky it's simply a request for your book. The host site won't give a damn and it's up to you as the author to remain vigilant every day and see if the link is provided.
At that time, you follow the link and email the actual download site and tell them the book is an illegal, stolen copy of your Copyrighted Material and ask for it to be removed. Most of these host sites will remove it within 24 hours...then the lovely thieves - I refuse to call them pirates because that is just too romantic - upload again some place else.
It sucks!
Good luck, hon...
A.J.
Thanks, A.J.
I'm going to keep my eyes open. I was shocked when I read the alert about the request for one of my books.
My publisher immediately sent an e-mail and will follow up if and when any of my books are listed on the different sites.
Let's hope something can be done about these people.
Mary Suzanne
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