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How People Steal Ebooks For Free
Posted by MelvinD • 10/24/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Well a lot of people who sell ebooks are too foolish not to find out that their ebooks are just leaking like waterpipes. In the end its just like wasting the effort they exerted on making their info products
Try doing this in google "name of ebook" filetype:PDF and you should get the ebook download..
www.melvinblog.com/2009/10/hey-steal-ebook/
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You are promoting theft?-
I just saw DB stuff that link into his pocket! Just wait until the cyber police come. They will put cyber handcuffs on you and you will have a cyber roommate named Bubba, and he might think you are cute! (I decided I am a psychic thanks to another discussion here tonight, and I predict you are not going to like Bubba....)
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"Theft" is a word for it, but if you really look at the various aspects, you might find that there are better words..-
Yeah, like cyber appropriation, cyber break-in, cyber burglary, cyber caper, cyber defrauding, cyber embezzlement, cyber filching, cyber fleecing (can be dually used with cyber sheep), cyber heisting, (my favorite) a cyber holdup, cyber mugging, and a host of others. You'll just have to take my word for it! lol
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And what aspects did you look into?
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Just go here:
www.pdf-search-engine.com/
And get yourself a lot of free - NON THEFT reading material...
Sigh - thieves steal things that are for sale - and find a code for the registration.
But - readers find good books for free too! -
hey i tried with your tip "name of ebook" filetype:PDF
its really awesome way for searching some new. Yes like others you are promoting theft. but if you use this trick for good reason than one can save lots of time
with regards
Sagar Rai
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There are a bunch of things you can do to prevent theft. You can secure your ebook so people can't copy or print it. You can require a password to access your download page - and prevent people from downloading more than once. (I'd post the URL to a vendor who sells a very good product that makes this a dead simple, but would probably be accused of link dropping again if I did. Instead, Google Easy Click Guard.)
Unfortunately, none of this is going to stop people from emailing your ebook to people they know, or uploading it to some file sharing site or other.
The good news is that many people are honest - and most of the file-sharing sites will take your file down if you point it out to them. -
Thats terrible, so unfair for the writers!-
thought of in another way, if you lock up knowledge you really cant grow. And dont give me the buy it argument. People should be able to afford it, and if not, it should be even given away. How else can we optimize the 6 billion thinking heads in the planet?
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Agreed - in an ideal world. Unfortunately, this world has certain economic realities that everyone has to live with. If your best chance to deal with those economic realities lies within the expertise you possess, giving it away might well be good for everyone else - but you might end up starving.
Yes, I know there can be business benefits to giving things away. Shows your expertise, etc. But that's the business owner's choice - and sometimes the business model doesn't allow for it. Consider a publisher. A publisher can't simply give it away and hope to survive.
If you steal an ebook, you're taking away people's livelihoods - that of both the writer and the publisher. If the writer and publisher can't make a living, they will stop writing and publishing. Anything worthwhile they might have produced and made available will not be produced, nor made available.
6 billion minds will not get any benefit from that. -
On the other hand no publisher has sold any book to 6 billion people. So in effect there is a lot of knowledge hoarding that's hidden. This knowledge would have served the world better had it been in the heads of a few more people at the right time
I maintain that knowledge should be given away to the poor who cannot buy it. Those who can buy, may buy of course -
"No publisher has sold any book to 6 billion people."
True. Yet even if the information were free, that doesn't make it freely available. It still needs to be distributed. Given that distribution costs, there should be a charge for the product.
Let's make something clear. Crazy, you're not just talking about the dissemination of knowledge to the needy. You're talking about business. You're saying that the production of services or products should be done without the need for payment.
Now, don't get me wrong; I'd love to live in a society that makes the necessities of life freely available to all. Sounds great to me. But our current civilization is an economic one, built around the foundations of commerce. To steal an ebook is to knock one of those foundations. Ok, not with a jackhammer or anything, but knock it nevertheless.
And let's also focus in on it a bit. Let's say your e-book is about how to market your website using Twitter. First, this is not the type of information that would enrich the life of a starving person in the slums of Mumbai. And second, that information is already freely available, should you wish to go hunting for it. The author is simply packaging it in a readily digestible form. They're selling that packaging. They're selling the effort. And I think they're completely entitled to do so.
If you're looking for the free information, fine. Do what the author did, and spend the time doing the research. But don't steal the book. -
Let me again iterate
1. I am not saying give it away to EVERYONE
2. I am not saying stop selling
3. I am saying make it affordable. Stealing ebooks is a form of protest by many who can't afford it
4. When the ease of distribution has done nothing to lessen the cost of the product, then it deserves to be stolen -
One last comment, and then I'm done. (At least for now.)
Yes, distribution can be easy. But that doesn't mean it's cheap. Ever tried to sell an ebook and not make a loss?
The cost of many ebooks reflect that cost. (And yes, that distribution cost is partly due to the stealing. What would your ebook conversion rate be if people didn't click on your Google ad, have a look at the product then immediately go to a file sharing site and download your product for free?)
Also: "...form of protest by many who can't afford it." Again, if they can't afford it, there's nothing stopping them from going to other, freely available sources of information.
I'm not talking about fiction; I'm talking about, as you say, knowledge. I firmly believe that almost everything known can be legitimately found online. Again, if they really want to know, they should do what the author has done: research. And then maybe a bit of original thought. Stealing ebooks is not only dishonest, it's a symptom of laziness.
Also, nothing "deserves" to be stolen. To steal something is a measure of disrespect for the person who owns it. I'll admit there may be exceptions when it comes to stealing to survive, but I doubt any ebook would fit into that category. -
"Yes, distribution can be easy. But that doesn't mean it's cheap. Ever tried to sell an ebook and not make a loss?"
It depends a lot on the skill of the seller. it is an open field. And if you make that an excuse for not passing on the cost savings to the customer then the publisher deserves what's coming to him
"And yes, that distribution cost is partly due to the stealing."
That's my point here. Instead of giving $0 if more people give $1 then it will work to lessen the cost. If you peg it at $47 for an EBOOK then the publisher just looks like a greedy pig to everyone. He is being greedy, and a lot foolish too IMO. If the monkey's fist weren't clenched so tight he might have been able to get some gram out of the jar
"What would your ebook conversion rate be if people didn't click on your Google ad, have a look at the product then immediately go to a file sharing site and download your product for free?)"
My book would have 2 or more editions, just like paper books. Paper books are available in my country under "Eastern economy edition". These books don't have the colorful graphics and superb page quality, and consequently can be sold for less. And you want to talk about an ebook costing as much as the original now?
"Also: "...form of protest by many who can't afford it." Again, if they can't afford it, there's nothing stopping them from going to other, freely available sources of information."
Let's see you do it. Do a masters or Phd without access to books. Or buy the cheap books with hardly a line of correct english
"I firmly believe that almost everything known can be legitimately found online. "
Our beliefs hardly matter. The beliefs of the exam evaluators and corny professors matter. You don't write what's found in the standard books, your worth is zilch. This is education.
"Stealing ebooks is not only dishonest, it's a symptom of laziness."
You care for honesty when the playing field is level. By not making it level the publishers and everyone else are the first people guilty of dishonesty.
"To steal something is a measure of disrespect for the person who owns it. "
Consumers dont know "respect". If they find it just to pay and buy, many will do so. If sellers can't respect their hardships then to hell with them
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We can't really stop people from stealing. But People who cannot safeguard their things or products are also not fit to be in business.-
LOL - good comment
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