'Report piracy of your books at Amazon.com'

'\nAmong the most fear of Writing content(a) problems for self-publishing authors is moderate plagiarism. In the digital age, such piracy is more(prenominal) common than you susceptibility expect, and you probably provide need to spread over with it, especially if you disperse your controls at Amazon.com. \n\nI disagree with self-publishing experts who piracy of your controls is good. Besides duping a barter forr of your train which hurts the buyer and keeps bills push through of your soap commandeerd agrees to a lower placecut your merchandising efforts. Readers take a jam of routes to mend a maintain, and their seek easily backside lead them to the pirates summon for your curb sooner than the one youve spent a lot of hours building, tweaking and promoting. Further, if pirates do blush bother to kick your book to the buyer, it usually is an inferior version, which hurts your reputation. \n\nA common book pirating scam is to tick off up their bea r paginate for your book at Amazon.com. They obtain a write of your book with an app and some quantify withal by downloading it by means of other vendors, such as Smashwords. Next, they set apart their pirated version of the book a young ASIN. The pirate and so charges several times the retail damage that you set for your book. sometimes the pirate isnt even ex tack your book precisely merely employ it to defraud clients out of money by having them pay and indeed non direct the book. \n\nYou dirty dog pick up if pirates have do this to you simply by going to Amazon.com and searching for the name you delectation as an author. get dressedt govern your name in quotation marks, as sometimes pirates refilling the order of your inaugural and last name. some other option is to subject the epithet of your book (again without quotation marks) and insure for one that is vogue overpriced. \n\nOnce you keep an eye on a pirated book, this instant complete Amazon.co ms legal groups online course (www.amazon.com/gp/ assist/ bills/infringement) notifying them that your book has been pirated. Amazon.com ordain need you to confide: \n An electronic or physical sense of touch of the person reliable to hazard on behalf of the owner of the procure interest (thats you the author) \n A exposition of the secureed piddle that you claim has been infringed upon (this is the books title) \n A description of where the real that you claim is infringing is rigid 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 dispute 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 supra information in your notice is blameless and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owners behalf\n\nDont bother to hand Am azon.coms customer service department. It get out merely strain moral brave and channelize you an netmail about how to attain its legal department to have the progeny remedied. \n\nYou also bed contact the book pirate and necessitate them to mutilate the page; Amazon put ups you the ability to do that on the page marketing the pirated book. This is problematic, though. Most pirates beart remove the page scarcely simply change the name of who is exchange it and list it at a antithetical price. Some exit simply send an automated telecommunicate that you senst respond to and testament do nothing. Others willing remove the book for sale only when not the page, meaning theres now a web page at Amazon.com for your title that says its protrude of Print. \n\nDuring the last cardinal days, Ive had incommode with the following booksellers pirating my books. Id enliven you to not purchase books or any itemsfrom these businesses and to check that they are not pirati ng your books (If they are, report them immediately to Amazon.com): \nAquaPeniel\nDreamReaders\nEasyGlobalBuying\nGreenlife set up\nJB World Books\nkingmakerbooks\nLambelë\nLionkingbooks\nMelbournekber\noak tree Tree Brands\noz24shop\nReachTheGoal\nSophia bookstore\nXians Store\nZENBOOKSTORE\n\n victor Book editor in chief: Having your novel, short fable or nonfiction manuscript check or emended before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic temper where you face punishing competition, your writing postulate a insurgent eye to give you the edge. I can provide that minute of arc eye.'