Last week there was another incident of some asshole on Facebook openly asking on her Facebook page for links to pirate sites for e-books “because she’s poor and authors make enough.” I. Can’t. Even. Contrary to popular belief, most writers do not make enough money to quit their evil day jobs. Hence why they have … Read More
WTF GooglePlay Books? You are ALLOWING pirates to operate!
This shitstain of a cuntnugget needs to go down: https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=Dogukan+Akbulut ALL the books he has posted are ILLEGALLY POSTED. And I found out today, after discovering he’d posted at least one of mine, that authors have been sending takedown notices to GooglePlay Books for WEEKS and their books are STILL showing up there. The illegally … Read More
WTFery – Adobe collecting user data via Digital Editions, malicious ebook code, & more.
From the “I can’t make this shit up” files comes a boneheaded revelation about Adobe’s Digital Editions 4, their epub app. Nate Hoffelder over on The Digital Reader blogged about verifying this privacy breach. The software is scraping info about the ebooks a customer reads, how they read it, in addition to other ebooks on the … Read More
Goodreads petition against piracy.
Did you know a Goodreads librarian can upload an e-book file to a book page? I found this out after discovering (thanks to a reader giving me a heads-up) that over a year ago, a Goodreads librarian had illegally uploaded several of my ebook files. Not only did I not know this was possible, I’ve … Read More
Another note on e-piracy.
Okay, for those of you who see auctions where the sellers claim to have resell rights to my e-books, listen up: THOSE ARE ILLEGAL AUCTIONS. Period. In fact, most auctions of fiction e-books are ILLEGAL. It doesn’t matter what their excuse is, unless it’s all public domain works (meaning OLD stuff like Charles Dickens, at … Read More
Unsung hero in the piracy war.
Patricia McLinn is my new hero. (Or should I say heroine?) She decided to hit the file pirate sites where it really hurts–in their ad sales revenue. http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/a-call-to-protect-copyrights You have to read about how she got AT&T to sit up, take notice, and act responsibly to remove their advertising off a file sharing site allowing … Read More
Publishing, Pirate Prattle, and Pay
There is this myth going around the pirate sites that they think published writers are rich, so if they steal files from them, it’s not hurting them, it’s only hurting “fat cat publishers.” Well, here’s another myth about to go up in flames on the sacred cow barbecue. The majority of writers, even writers whose … Read More
Fight Pirates – Earn Booty! (No, not THAT kind of booty!)
(Note: there is a contest behind all of this, you just have to wade through the rant to get to it! LOL) I hate pirates. Not the yargh matey, rape-pillage-plunder fellows. Those guys are okay. The pirates I despise with a passion are the ones who illegally post files for download. In other words, scurvy … Read More
The noise you hear is me smacking my head agains the table.
It’s now not enough I have to patrol pirate file sites for my stuff. Apparently I have to also now patrol sites where writers can post writing. I found a site where some nimrod was in the process of posting my book, “Love Slave for Two.” AND passing it off as their own. Get this … Read More