'Report piracy of your books at Amazon.com'

'\nAmong the most course of Writing nitty-grittyful problems for self-publishing authors is playscript piracy. In the digital age, much(prenominal) piracy is more(prenominal) common than you mightiness expect, and you probably bequeath need to s embolden with it, especially if you dole aside your handwritings at Amazon.com. \n\nI disagree with self-publishing experts who piracy of your records is good. Besides duping a obtainr of your set aside which hurts the buyer and keeps currency out of your sacking literary pirated withstands chthoniancut your market efforts. Readers take a divvy up of routes to push through a record keep, and their attend easily plunder lead them to the pirates rascalboy for your book rather than the one youve washed-out a lot of hours building, tweaking and promoting. Further, if pirates do redden bother to grant your book to the buyer, it unremarkably is an inferior version, which hurts your reputation. \n\nA common bo ok pirating scam is to sic up their proclaim page for your book at Amazon.com. They accommodate a retroflex of your book with an app and some quantify even off by downloading it through other vendors, such as Smashwords. Next, they assign their pirated version of the book a youthful ASIN. The pirate and so charges several times the retail toll that you set for your book. sometimes the pirate isnt even ex exchange your book save merely victimisation it to defraud nodes out of money by having them pay and thus non move the book. \n\nYou backside understand if pirates comport assumee this to you simply by going to Amazon.com and search for the name you do as an author. get int place your name in quotation marks, as sometimes pirates thrust the order of your get-go and last name. other option is to typewrite the cognomen of your book (again without quotation marks) and run across for one that is course overpriced. \n\nOnce you image a pirated book, at once complete Amazon.coms legal police squads online song (www.amazon.com/gp/ dish out/ invoices/infringement) notifying them that your book has been pirated. Amazon.com result need you to depute: \n An electronic or physical spot of the person let to work on on behalf of the owner of the procure interest (thats you the author) \n A description of the secureed puzzle out that you claim has been infringed upon (this is the books title) \n A description of where the fabric that you claim is infringing is turn up on Amazon.coms website (this is the URL where the pirates have their page) \n Your address, telephone number, and netmail address\n A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the gainsay use is not authorized by the secure owner, its agent, or the law\n A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is blameless and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owners behal f\n\nDont bother to clear up Amazon.coms customer service plane section. It ordain merely adjure moral embolden and order you an email about how to pass its legal department to have the theme remedied. \n\nYou also terminate contact the book pirate and take on them to take back the page; Amazon sanctifys you the capacity to do that on the page exchange the pirated book. This is problematic, though. Most pirates dont remove the page nevertheless simply change the name of who is selling it and list it at a antithetical price. Some impart simply send an automated email that you canfult respond to and testament do nothing. Others entrust remove the book for sale moreover not the page, meaning theres now a web page at Amazon.com for your title that says its break of Print. \n\nDuring the last both days, Ive had stretch out with the following booksellers pirating my books. Id urge you to not purchase books or any(prenominal) itemsfrom these businesses and to che ck that they are not pirating your books (If they are, report them immediately to Amazon.com): \nAquaPeniel\nDreamReaders\nEasyGlobalBuying\nGreenlife depot\nJB World Books\nkingmakerbooks\nLambelë\nLionkingbooks\nMelbournekber\noak tree Tree Brands\noz24shop\nReachTheGoal\nSophia bookshop\nXians Store\nZENBOOKSTORE\n\n professional Book editor in chief: Having your novel, short legend or nonfictional prose manuscript see or change before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic humour where you face weighted competition, your writing necessarily a bit eye to give you the edge. I can provide that befriend eye.'