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Preventing E-Book Piracy

Preventing E-Book Piracy

I've noticed, through the metrics that I get through Google, that some people are coming to my site to find out about ebook piracy, since I wrote about it here. I do tend to waffle on a bit about piracy in general, so grab your parrot and peg leg, kids! Let's talk...

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Has my Book been Pirated?

Has my Book been Pirated?

Piracy is still a big issue for ebooks, in spite of the fact that DRM has been optional for a while now on Amazon (the only platform that counts*). I'm still of the opinion that it's basically irrelevant - you can't control it, can't prevent it, and worrying about it...

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The Great Erotica Ebook Purge

The Great Erotica Ebook Purge

So here's the deal, for all of you authors who are wondering what's going on. Yes, all two of you. The Kernel wrote an editorial about how - SHOCK, HORROR - there is porn on the internet. More specifically, there's porn on Amazon and Kobo, in the form of ebooks. I am...

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Cunable by the Numbers

Much has been made of a new service called Cunable. Here's their description, in their own words: Calling it self-retailing, Cunable allows all authors, those with or without an existing publishing relationship, to sell from their personal websites. By removing the...

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Licensing restrictions for ebooks

It's safe to say that I read a ridiculous amount of material every day. I'm a speed reader by nature, so the 300-500 items I get daily through my RSS feeds don't seem like much. I read so fast that I'd probably be bored otherwise. It has its drawbacks, of course. It's...

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Read any good ebooks lately?

The brouhaha over Amazon and the larger publishers setting the price of ebooks has become rather deafening lately. Doom and gloom all around; writers lamenting the death of traditional publishing; the impending Apocalypse. You'd think that everyone has stopped buying...

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