Russia boasts of a rich literary culture, but is also besotted with digital piracy of an unprecedented scale; that translates to substantially less cash inflow to the national exchequer every year. eBook piracy in the country is among the highest in the world, and a Russian company has likely come with a solution:an ebook reading service, Bookmate, that offers ebook … [Read more...] about Russian eBook App Bookmate Offers Unlimited Access For $5 Monthly
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Amazon Controls 79% of the eBook Market in the UK
A new survey was recently released by Ofcom, undertaken by Kantar Media and made possible by financial support from the UK Intellectual Property Office. It is very apparent that the vast majority of the UK's digital readers are doing business with Amazon and to a lesser extent all the other digital bookstores. 79% of the people polled from March to May 2013 have used Amazon’s … [Read more...] about Amazon Controls 79% of the eBook Market in the UK
Feature: Vietnam Publishers Lobbying for War on eBook Piracy
Last week we published our first feature on the emergence of book piracy on the worldwide stage. We investigated occurrences in Thailand, Nigeria, and China and how their ebook culture works. Today we are looking at Vietnam, which has a very high degree of book digital piracy. Often when you buy an e-reader in a retail environment in Vietnam and its capital Hanoi, you will … [Read more...] about Feature: Vietnam Publishers Lobbying for War on eBook Piracy
File Scanning Service 1DollarScan Causes Fear of Piracy
On the surface, the concept behind San Jose-based file scanning company 1DollarScan is both simple and practical. Send a piece of print material to the company, and upon signing the user agreement and making payment, the company will send back a PDF of the material sent. This is an ideal service for companies with large volumes of documents that need to be stored, newspapers or … [Read more...] about File Scanning Service 1DollarScan Causes Fear of Piracy
Google to Fight eBook Piracy with Major Search Engine Shakeup
Google is rolling out updates that will drastically reduce the amount of piracy you find when casually surfing the internet. In many cases, when you are looking to buy an ebook or a new music track, often an avalanche of pirate sites dominate the results of your query. Google is revising its search engine to filter out many websites that have active DMCA complaints or are known … [Read more...] about Google to Fight eBook Piracy with Major Search Engine Shakeup
Wiley Takes on Verizon Over Piracy Concerns
John Wiley and Sons, publishers of the widely popular bestselling For Dummies series of titles, have been doing battle of late over piracy of its ebooks. As recently as last month, Wiley estimated that more than 74,000 of one of its popular titles alone had been illegally downloaded. In April, the publisher filed a lawsuit against 200 people based on the IP addresses after a … [Read more...] about Wiley Takes on Verizon Over Piracy Concerns
Book Publishers Close Two of the World’s Largest eBook Pirate Sites
US Publishers and a coalition of international partners that include the Association of American Publishers, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Oxford University Press, and Pearson Education Inc. have banded together to shut down two of the worlds largest file sharing book websites. The operators of www.library.nu and … [Read more...] about Book Publishers Close Two of the World’s Largest eBook Pirate Sites
eBook Pirates – The Reasons Why People Do It
It is easy to see how pirating copyright material in the digital age contrasts to how we people used to do it. You might remember mixed tapes, when cassette players first got the ability to record content, many people heralded it as the end of the music industry. People gave them to their high-school crushes and to their friends, and despite that fact they owned the music they … [Read more...] about eBook Pirates – The Reasons Why People Do It
Piracy Drives One Noted Author to Early Retirement
Ebook piracy and illegal file sharing of authors’ works proved to be the final straw for an award-winning, bestselling author. Spanish author Lucía Etxebarria, whose works have won the highly prestigious Planeta and Primavera awards, has declared she is done with publishing, at least for now. She places the blame squarely on ebook piracy of her works. Piracy has long been … [Read more...] about Piracy Drives One Noted Author to Early Retirement
International Markets Must Adopt Ebooks in Order to Survive
The Australian government focus group Book Industry Strategy Group issued a report yesterday that included twenty-one different steps that it recommended in order to revive a flailing book industry. According to an article by Suzanne Tindal for ZDNet, the current state of Australia’s book market is in all but chaos, given that the Australian book market has lost $280 million so … [Read more...] about International Markets Must Adopt Ebooks in Order to Survive