the link: please go act on it and spread the wordIf you’re just now tuning in, an overseas pirate has put up a ripoff masquerading as a Foreigner novel, which is actually a repackaged ripoff of a Foreigner novel. Do honest writers a favor and hit this little offering, along with Rendezvous with Zama and the rest of his piratical offerings…with the most scathing reviews you can manage. They put this stuff out on a weekend, apparently, so all the people that could act are out of the office—but WE aren’t. So go do a good deed. Here’s the link.
Campaign against a pirate…thank you: your reviews are brilliant. Keep them coming.
by CJ | Jul 14, 2012 | Journal | 39 comments
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John Scalzi was also pirated. LOVE his review, including the brilliant title:
“I liked it better when I wrote it.
Posted July 15, 2012.
By John Scalzi.
This review is from: How I Proposed To My Girlfriend – An Amazing Alien Sex Story (Kindle Edition)
This version, while containing the same words in the same order — and heck, even the same inside artwork — just isn’t the same. I’m trying to figure out why that is. Maybe it will come to me in time.
The real irony is that if you buy the ACTUAL, non-thieved version here on Amazon, it’s substantially cheaper.
How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story”
http://www.amazon.com/How-Proposed-To-Girlfriend-ebook/dp/B008L2KL08/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Glad to hear DAW is on it. In the US to get pirated material off the web the publisher has to be involved in notifying sites etc.
An author, unless they have full rights to the book (ie no publisher at the time) cannot do it themselves. For small presses this is problematic as piracy has a stronger effect on their sales.
Helen McCarthy found this out when a bit-o-scum scanned and uploaded her Anime Encyclopedia. She fought back with a series of blog posts and online discussions on piracy.
Attempts to revise US law and treaties to fight online piracy have met resistance from some groups that see them as censorship.
Oh, they’re not helpful to publishers either. I publish a number of books in languages which are not on their “list”. I tried to get to speak to an actual person responsible for metadata. It was impossible. I was only allowed to speak through a customer service representative, who did not know, and did not care. There is some kind of moat around that company.
Good luck to DAW. I mean it!
Another angry author: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/07/15/take-a-moment-out-of-your-day-to-shame-an-appalling-thief/
Perhaps this will help, CJ: http://www.sfwa.org/2010/07/sample-dmca-generator-for-authors/
I’m not a lawyer — but having had to sue an infringer in court (we won), I got familiar with the DMCA enforcement process (which has gotten very straightforward in the last ten years; in the beginning it was a nightmare). Once Amazon’s copyright enforcement agent comes back to the office (on Monday, hopefully), direct contact from DAW’s legal dept. *should* get the matter taken care of fairly quickly. The copyright registration for Intruder, and a few sample pages for comparison, should be sufficient for Amazon to remove Infringer’s listing. Unfortunately this process is one-book-at-a-time, unless you can go up the ladder in Amazon’s legal dept. far enough to get someone with the authority to use their brains, and ban Infringer entirely. This *is* possible, but DAW’s lawyer will have a better chance of getting there than any layperson, even The Infringed.
All books disappeared on Amazon FR at 19h00 French hour. I am happy that it was rapidly resolved.
The thieving loon has a Lulu account. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/fabsruet I am reporting this to Lulu. They don’t look authorized either.
Evertype? If that’s who I think, then I am impressed. Wow, welcome.
That is indeed. Again, wow, very accomplished someone.in fonts, character sets, and language support. Major scholar and supporter of foreign and current and ancient languages, widespread or obscure. Fanboy moment, here.
You’ll like this one, which Betsy Wollheim put up on FB: http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/big-six-publishers-decline-to-renew-contract-with-amazon-over-unfavorable-terms/
Gosh, Amazon’s never offered me a fat stipend… 😉
BlueCatShip, for a few years I’ve been publishing too: Carrolliana, Cornish, Irish, and other things. You can visit my website by clicking my name above, if you like. Cheers, and thanks for your kind words,.