Has anyone had dealings with geeker.com or ampnovo.com?
I was doing a random search on my book, as I have been subject to unlawful publishing of my books in the past.
I came across these two sites offering my books for free without permission. I have contacted both sites and informed them they are in breach of copyright, so we will see if that has any result.
Authors, it might be worth your while checking for your books.
Tanya
Comments
Well...
Geeker.com has been around since 2003 wheras ampnovo.com is only a few months old.
geeker is registered in Arizona but ampnovo is in Indonesia so they don't seem to be connected at first glance. Good luck with enforcing copyright in Indonesia but a simple DMCA request in the USA should do the job.
the 'whois' entries for each do give a contact phone number.
Samantha.
LuLu and Ingram
Are any of the books in question listed with LuLu? Lulu has a distribution deal with Ingram and some of these places buy the books via that route. No clue if they buy 1 or 30 copies, they don't talk how they share with the authors, but sometimes they feel they are skirting on the legal side of the law, no matter how close to the line they are.
-Piper
This happened with a Russian company
And one of the books we publish through DopplerPress and Lulu. They had bought the book from Ingraham and seemed to have assumed they had bought all rights. As doofy as that sounds, they promptly took the book down when I complained as publisher even though they were not in the US.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Ripped me off too
They got mine too. damn it!
ampnovo.com
http://www.keyscomputerrepair.com/secure-shop.html?i=B071KR64XT
quidquid sum ego, et omnia mea semper; Ego me.
alecia Snowfall
Just looked at that page
and the related books are the list that comes up when you use the amazon link from the BCTS main page
Theft
Keys Computer Repair seems to be owned by Amazon. It looks to be legit. Alecia, I'd question someone at Amazon.
Karen
Those are links to the Amazon site
We get our royalties off of sales from those links and the site may get commission. This is free advertising instead of rip-off.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Story/ book thieves
There was a website several months ago that was stealing stories from BC A group of us protested to that site, and after a bit , it disappeared.
Karen
At the bottom of the page
They explain they are an advertising affiliate site for Amazon and get a commission for referrals to the Amazon purchase page. Their purchase links seem to send the browser to Amazon for purchase.
Problem with electronic publishing
To easy to click, copy, steal. There are digital watermarks one may place on their published works. Which one could do individually for each site they listed their books. In the "old days" of advertising one would use their normal address but add a different "suite number" to each different medium one sent their add to. Thus Women's Day might have address suite 101. Vogue would have address suite 102. The inquiries to each suite would let one know the most return for each different advertisement. The idea of "mailing" one's script back to themselves for a postmark as a proof of ownership was widely accepted and sadly terribly wrong. Never held up in a court of law.
In our age of digital medium theft is too easy. Even if the thieves and the author reside in the same country but different state it is next to impossible and really expensive to hire lawyers to put the squash on them. If they have no ethics or morals they shut down, open up a New site and go right back to stealing. Again it is court and lawyers and expense. They can keep doing it and one will be litigated to death trying to chase them down.
There is no good answer for digital thieves I have found or read about. It is the main reason I am reluctant to put novels out there in the digital either. How much percentage or siphoning of one's gross income is one willing to write off in order to sell their story on the net? The only way I have been able to cope is knowing I am only a steward of what is under my care. It is not mine but belongs to God. I'm not taking a single material item with me when I check out of this mortal life. It's not true "he who dies with the most toys wins".
Have fun with life, it's too short to take it seriously
always
Barb
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
So far
So far, all the stories that belong to us or our authors that we have followed links for lead to bait and switch sites that are probably infected with malware. No actual stories to dl or read online.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I'm
Obviously so bad at this writing lark they don't think I'm worth ripping off!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Untrue
and you know it, we all know it.
Samantha
I'm Mad
Thank u for telling me to do a search because I found my book Angels in the Alley at www.godswork.org