Piracy Warning: General-eBooks.com
I got a Google Alert and found my eBook,
The Animals of London on this site with a "Get Book" button that goes to a pirated copy of my book on liversely.com. In a few seconds the URL in the browser changes to livedirsetsoftware.org. Instructions pop up for getting the download of my work. (BTW, I cut and pasted those site names so the unusual spellings are theirs).
I used the copyright infringement button and told General eBooks to remove the listing. Found two copies. Copied all the URLs and filed a DMCA.
The file hosting sites have no contact information and they have red Web of Trust warnings that could indicate malware, so I didn't enter those sites.
Here's the link for setting up Google Alerts:
https://www.google.com/alerts#
I used the DMCA form through Google's webmaster's tools (requires being logged in to a Google account):
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice
I also left comments on each book listing on General-eBooks asking readers not to use the "Get Book" button because my work was pirated. A new eBook series I published this month was also stolen and offered on this site so I had to repeat the procedure and again some of the books had two listings each.
Now I have to file DMCAs for each title of the series. I'm wondering if there's a way to set up macros for this, or other automated methods? Lazarus was handy (Firefox add-on) because I could refill all the forms with one click. There should be a better way -- this is time-consuming.
If you check for your books, look under title and author. The new series didn't show up under the author name but I found all of them under the series title.
How do the rest of you deal with this? If I was making enough, I'd outsource this, but I'm new at epublishing and that's not in the budget. I'd planned to spend my day finishing the next book and instead I lost most of the day to dealing with being robbed, and chances are it won't stop the thieves. I've seen posting on Kindle Boards from authors who report their books are repeatedly offered on Google Play by pirates. The authors have to keep filing.
Any thoughts on ways to keep on this? Is there any software or a service? This was a huge hit against my enthusiasm for publishing.