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(I'm not certain this is exactly the right subforum for this, but it seems to fit best. Feel free to movie it, of course.)
Has anyone else seen this website? http://www.esnips.com/
It's a file-sharing site, supposedly for people to share their own art, pictures, originsal music etc....but there's a booming business in the free sharing of ebooks, as well. And not just ebooks by ebook romance writers, but everything from Shakespeare to Twain to Stephen King. Some of these files show over 400 dowloads, all free.
Apparently the owners will take stuff down if you complain, but it just pops up again a few days later.
The reason I'm putting it here, aside from the obvious, is someone on one of my author groups said the site takes the issues a lot more seriously, or has a broader expanse of what it can do, if the actual author contacts them. I'm not sure about that--it sounds rather fishy to me--but I thought it was worth a warning to everyone anyway.
Has anyone else seen this website? http://www.esnips.com/
It's a file-sharing site, supposedly for people to share their own art, pictures, originsal music etc....but there's a booming business in the free sharing of ebooks, as well. And not just ebooks by ebook romance writers, but everything from Shakespeare to Twain to Stephen King. Some of these files show over 400 dowloads, all free.
Apparently the owners will take stuff down if you complain, but it just pops up again a few days later.
The reason I'm putting it here, aside from the obvious, is someone on one of my author groups said the site takes the issues a lot more seriously, or has a broader expanse of what it can do, if the actual author contacts them. I'm not sure about that--it sounds rather fishy to me--but I thought it was worth a warning to everyone anyway.