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Evidently authors are eager to have their books pirated so they can earn no income from them. One author made a comment that Amazon with it's billions of dollars can't stop ebook piracy but they expect authors to be able to do so. That author has a company that looks for pirated copies of her books and sends the cease and desist notices for the little good they do. For starter reads on the issue, see Amazon Punishes Authors Whose Work Is Pirated, Due to Aggressive Exclusivity Clause or Amazon Can Penalize Authors Because Of Ebook Piracy. One quote from the second article is: Quote:
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Crazy.
The scanning and the exclusivity both need to stop. |
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Amazon should have the same anti-piracy rules in place for ALL eBooks. But they won't because they'd lose a lot of top sellers.
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Meanwhile, the Mary Sue article that DNSB posted argues that Amazon should "put more research/resources into anti-piracy measures"... except that almost invariably results in it harming/inconveniencing legitimate customers worse than the pirates.
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The only anti-piracy Amazon should be concerned with is books or products published dishonestly on their own site. Elsewhere is none of their business, unless they are owning the copyright.
Edit: Indeed the Mary-Sue article states issues and amazingly fails to conclude that the issue is the Exclusivity clause. They seem ignorant of how easy piracy is. Copying ANY system of DRM to a DRM free version is trivial. The only anti-piracy that works is government law enforcement closing the operators. Even that can't eradicate piracy. Amazon can't stop content on their site being pirated. The conclusions of the article are delusional. Amazon are treating the KU content as if they own the Copyright and that somehow the content providers to them are doing the piracy. Both of those are wrong. Last edited by Quoth; 05-25-2024 at 10:50 AM. |
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When it comes down to it, there's no way to prevent someone from pointing a camera at a screen.
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eBook publishers changing the covers for seemingly no good reason. Especially when they change it to a generic stock-photo cover. Yuck!
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