Warning to Published Authors!!!

by Charlie Aylett
10th October 2014

Not a question -- spreading the word I heard on another writers' website. Someone posted this, and there are other authors who say their work is also being downloaded without permission:

"There is a site called Scrib'd, which offers subscribers unlimited access to books, downloaded for free. My book is there, though I certainly never gave any permission for this.

Published authors amongst you might wish to check your book against the website, and then issue cease and desist notices.

I reckon we should all insist the website pays us for any unauthorised downloads it has allowed too. That'd teach 'em!

The website is here: https://www.scribd.com/"

Might be wise for anyone published to check it out...

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Might be ... with an estimated 80 million visitors a month, I'd like my books on there. But it only happens if you are with one of the over 900 publishers, including Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, RosettaBooks, and Workman

I reckon we should all insist the website pays us for any unauthorised downloads it has allowed too. That'd teach 'em!

Good luck with that.

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