If anyone here sees one of their books on the site, they should send an email to Copyrightclaims AT Godaddy.com, in accordance with this:
http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/legal_agreements/show_doc.asp?se=+&pageid=TRADMARK_COPY
It's the typical DCMA stuff; you have to say you're the copyright holder and verify you didn't give permission.
GoDaddy currently hosts this site, and they are generally very proactive about these things.
A writer's biggest problem isn't piracy; it's obscurity.
Sorry, Uncle Jim, but I completely disagree.
Yes, obscurity is a bigger problem, certainly. But I really have a hard time understanding how anyone can just shrug their shoulders at this while bookstores and publishers lay people off and teeter on the edge of bankruptcy (as with Borders.) It's very easy to say "Those people wouldn't have bought the books anyway," but that doesn't make it true. How do you know they wouldn't have? I'm sure a percentage of them wouldn't have, but a percentage of them also might. And yes, for some books giving away free copies increases sales. But not all the books being pirated are print books. Some are ebooks--there's pages and pages of listing from EC there--and those books do not exist in any other form. When you download the pirated ebook you possess the book in the only format in which it is available, period.
Not to mention copyright theft is a crime, plain and simple. And it's one I believe no writer should shrug at. We all know about genericized trademarks. Isn't it just possible that if we don't defend our copyrights eventually we will lose them? I'm tired of being told a criminal act is no big deal and it's dumb of me to get upset about it. And I'm tired of writers who seem to think that since ebooks aren't "real" books anyway, ebook authors should just quit worrying when they're being stolen from. Ebook sales offer much higher royalties but a (generally) lower number of sales. If people can get my ebooks for free they
won't buy them, and each of those books is worth anywhere from $1.20 to $2.50 or so to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark