Saturday, August 11, 2018

Pirating on CreateSpace - Publishers Weekly (PW)


There's all kinds of ways to scam authors.
Today's trip into the Catosphere took Panzer to the Publishers Weekly (PW) site. With a little digging around our persistent kitty found a post about CreateSpace.

According to Kenny Brechner, book pirates have been using CreateSpace to print and distribute their stolen books. Mr. Brechner owns a bookstore in Maine and learned about the scam from an author who came into his bookstore. The author's book had been scanned and then printed and distributed through CreateSpace. Upon investigation Mr. Brechner found examples of other stolen books. All the books listed the same pirate named Cecil Eckar as the author. The post includes screen shots showing examples of the pirated books.

Panzer says, "Amazon needs to have better screening for copyright infringement in place at CreateSpace."

Note: Because of the screenshots illustrating the post, this is a medium length post. Bring a cup of tea and a muffin for today's reading selection.

To read the post tootle over to Create Space

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