Archive for November, 2008

Ebook piracy?


The ebook piracy thing. What do you think? Is it completely unforgivable, or are there certain exceptions to the rule? Feel free to expand on the question.

It’s a more complex issue than it seems at first glance. A number of authors believe the populatiry of their pirate ebooks is partially responsible for their success. Paulo Coelho even started a website (Pirate Coelho) to distribute his ebooks, believing that it was a good way to promote his work.

One publisher in particular (Baen) likes their authors to make one book available for free, in the hope that people will read the first book in a series online and buy the others.

There’s an ongoing debate about whether the author and publisher lose money (assuming people will buy the book if they can’t steal it) or not (assuming they wouldn’t buy it anyway).

And finally, the real losers in this debate. Textbooks. Who’s going to buy a textbook if it’s available free?

So… comments?

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hi,i got a mail from GoogleCashLearn.com, Software XPerts about a online job, which was something like this?


” Google is the leading advertising network in Internet. Many merchants are competing each other to publish their advertisement in Google.And they are having plenty of publisher network. Google is distributing those advertisements to publishers. Publishers are small website owners and webmasters.
Here we are explaining step by step instruction how to became an publisher Want to became an publisher of Google and interested to earn handsome income as part time ?? Just make a order for The GoogleCashLearn ebook CD Package.”
So this was the mail, but we have to pay 1500 & bye their kit to do this job…Now my questions is …is this fake or real…has anybody done this job & got any profit?? i want to know the reality before buying their pakage…so can anybody help me pls??

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I am in the process of publishing a bodybuilding journal and have two cover designs?


Both designs are great, but I can only use one. Please help me decide. I’ll send you a free copy of my ebook “Now you’re Cooking” all about okara – the miracle diet food you make at home from soy beans. Thank you.

The two covers can be seen at http://spartica.ca/htmls/choose-cover.html

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How publish ebook?


Can anyone recommend a book where I can learn how to sell my book myself on a web site of my own or by email?

Best publishing ebook site. Do publishers who seel ebook also print hard copies?


I am searching for good publishing houses in US or both hard copies and online ebook houses.

Do publishers who sell the ebook online also print the hard copies

What are the rules publishing ebook and publishing hard copies

Can I sell my book to one publisher or I can sell to different publishers

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I’m a great writer so how do I?


write an ebook and get it sold online?
Firstly, how do I protect the title of the book? Where do I reserve that?
Secondly, how do I find people (publisher perhaps) to market and sell for me?
Thirdly, how do I do these things while I’m in St Vincent (Caribbean). I’m talking with respect to laws etc…
Please help.

P.S. Oh by the way, I can PROVE to you that I’m a great writer…I wrote my FIRST article and submitted it to ezine and gained INSTANT “Expert Writer” Status…I was also showing up in POSITION NUMBER 1 on Google within the last 5 or so weeks…here’s that article. It’s content has NOTHING to do with the book I’m writing right now…Enjoy

http://ezinearticles.com/?Sponsor-New-Distributors&id=776963

The article was taken from a private blog I wrote…I KNOW better than to create published material with this sort of Grammar…COME ON.
Jherek you’re humourous. Great entertaining response. I won’t dignify it with a delete…let others have a laugh.

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Copyright, Is it safe for me to publish a more that 70 year old book to an eBook?


I live in Britian is it ok for me to copy, scan and publish a 70 year old book. I think in Britian it’s 70 years and in other places it’s 50 not sure.

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How can I publish my book for FREE?


I wrote a study guide for a Sun java (programming) exam. I want to know is this book legal. Please feel kind to read this and provide an accurate answer for me.

Sun microsystems, the owner of the Java technology conducts several examinations in world wide as such as SCJP and SCWCD. There are many study guides are available for these examinations. But, there are no study guide currently available for the latest version of _____* exam. Because of this, it is very very hard to study for this exam. We have to read number of books, browse internet for so many web sites, to study for this examination. The exam content has a very large scale.

I wrote a study guide for this exam, by extracting contents from ebooks, web sites and some other several resources. I directly extracted some contents from more than 50 copywritten resources. However, I also added my own instructions too.

As those copywritten resources says, it is prohibit to extract their content and/or publish. However I did it, and maked my own study guide in pdf (ebook) format.

I know it is illegal. Because I think I violated copyright, but I don’t know. But, please feel kind to read the rest.

Now I have my study guide in pdf format. I can make a separate web site, only for this study guide, and allow anyone to download this pdf file for free. If I do it, my study guide will be the first and only study guide currently available for this ____* exam. I post this question before doing it!

I wrote this study guide to help others. I don’t wish to earn anything from it. My ambition with this ebook is to help other peoples those who are preparing for this exam. This is the only, only, and only purpose of writing this ebook.

Therefore I want to publish this ebook as I said above, even though it is an illegal task.

I added my name and country in this ebook. But I didn’t added my address or any other contact information. I mentioned in “preface”, that I extracted some content from other resources. Now my question is this. Under the above scenario, what will happen if I publish this book on a separate web site, as I mentioned above? My country is Sri Lanka, but I didn’t publish my contact info, so can they caught me for this in any way? What if I migrate to USA after 5 – 6 years later.

I also want to know, whether I’m doing a good job or bad job?

Please feel kind to provide accurate answers and comments.

* : In the above question, I didn’t mentioned the name of this exam, to be hidden from search engines.

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Were to find ebooks to download?


Hi, I want to download following books and teachers guide of Oxford Publishers (written by Peter Moss and others) in ebook (pdf, etc) format.
a. Geography Alive Book 3 written by Peter Moss
b. Oxford School Atlas for Pakistan New Ed
c. Oxford Student Atlas
d. Oxford Pocket Atlas
e. geog
f. Pakistan: History, Culture, and Government
g. Oxford History for Pakistan
Please guide.

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Are these free poetry ebooks any good?


Are these free poetry ebooks any good. Why do publishers give away free ebooks
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/gamahucher_press_catalogue.htm

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