Major Publishers Sue Google Over Ads for Pirated Ebooks - Publishing Perspectives

Hmm ... When you get notified, take it down.

Today's trip into the Catosphere took Panzer to the Publishing Perspectives site. There he found a post about a lawsuit against Google.

Porter Anderson's post is about four textbook publishers who sued Google. The publishers sued over ads Google is allowing textbook pirates to place on the platform, even though they've been notified of the situation.

Panzer says, "The post has links to other information."

Note: This is a long post. Bring a cup of tea and a muffin for today's snack.

To read the post tootle over to Google Sued

Judge issues preliminary injunction for Amazon and top authors in lawsuit against 'pirate' book site - GeekWire

Today as Panzer was sweeping out the Panzermobile, our illustrious kitty found a wadded up post under the pilot seat. Flattening the post out, he discovered it was from the GeekWire site and about the court case against the KISS Library site. In July Panzer told you about the lawsuit filed against KISS Library by Amazon, publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) and several individual authors.

Don't steal. You will get caught.

According to the post by GeekWire's Taylor Soper, the judge in the case has issued a preliminary injunction ordering KISS Library and all its assorted other sites to shut down. To accomplish the shutdown, the judge ordered domain registrars to de-activate the KISS-owned domain names. In the judge's opinion these are pirate sites and they distributed and sold copyrighted material without the copyright owners' permission.

Panzer says, "Hmm ... This little kitty wonders what these pirates will do now."

Note: This is a long-short length post. Bring a cup of tea for today's reading selection. If you plan to read Panzer's previous post and the link in it, bring another cup of tea and a muffin.

To read the post tootle over to Amazon
To read Panzer's previous post about the KISS Library tootle over to Amazon lawsuit

Authors Guild, Amazon, PRH File Suit Against E-book Pirate Site - Publishers Weekly

Today Panzer decided to make a stop at the Publishers Weekly site. With hardly any digging in the posts our traveling kitty boy discovered one about an effort by Amazon, the Authors Guild and publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) to close down the piracy ebook site KISS Library.

Stealing is stealing.

According to the Publishers Weekly Staff post, the Authors Guild, Amazon and Penguin Random House have filed a lawsuit against the ebook piracy site KISS Library. The KISS Library is located in Ukraine. The KISS Library uses other sites such as Kissly.net, Libly.net and others to sell illegal, pirated ebooks to buyers in the U.S. The post includes a link to the Authors Guild's announcement about the the lawsuit and also included is a link to the court filing.

Panzer says, "Don't they realize that by stealing my ebooks they're taking the food right out of my kitty dish?"

Note: This is a long-short length post. Bring a cup of tea for today's reading selection. If you plan to follow the links included in the post, bring another cup of tea and a muffin.

To read the post tootle over to  Authors Guild, Amazon, PRH

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