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Welp they have all my books up there -- including two where the rights have reverted to me.
There's another thread here, where I shared my emails with the developer. The app does not edit the file. It covers the words, and you can turn it off for a particular book. It's basically like fast-forwarding through a scene in a movie.
I'm still on the fence about leaving my book up though. They have it since I published through Draft2Digital.
Was: “This chicken breast is delicious.”
Becomes: “This chicken chest is delicious.”
Was: “The needle stuck in his arm with a prick.”
Becomes: “The needle stuck in his arm with a groin.”
Someone on Twitter linked to Inktera as the CleanReader App store,* but Inktera just tweeted they are withdrawing their system from CR's use. So I don't know what's going on.
* My books are listed there, but I did know they were listed in Inktera through D2D. If Inktera is withdrawing support, I don't know how to check if my books are still available through the CR app.
Over the last several days we have been asking for and receiving significant feedback from authors. We have read as much of the feedback as we could. A common theme in all of it is that many authors do not want their books being sold in connection with Clean Reader. We have therefore taken immediate action to remove all books from our catalogue. Any books our users have already purchased will still be available in their in-app library within Clean Reader. In connection with this decision there will be several changes made to the app and an update will be released in the near future. These changes will also be in response to the feedback we have received from many authors and users. Thanks for your patience as we work quickly to develop the next release.
Sincerely Yours,
Clean Reader
But if they're selling pirated books? Um. Sorry, no.
There's another thread here, where I shared my emails with the developer. The app does not edit the file. It covers the words, and you can turn it off for a particular book. It's basically like fast-forwarding through a scene in a movie.
I'm still on the fence about leaving my book up though. They have it since I published through Draft2Digital.
I feel a bit sorry for them. They've been (apparently?) professional about what they were trying to do, but the content providers (rather than their intended customers) are not happy about what they were trying to do.
From the looks of it (and by their emails) they had no idea they were -- they say they got the info/books from legit distributors (well Ingrams is, I've not heard of Overdrive?).