People who were ready to buy a new copy of the REAL book, or a used copy of the REAL book, get enticed by "bargain" downloads for a buck or two.
They don't know that these are illegal dupe copies, do they? How could EBAY be crass and stupid enough to allow BOOK THIEVES to prosper?
But prosper, they do...EBAY, THE BOOK THIEVES and PAYPAL, all sharing in profits that belong to AUTHORS.
That's just SOME of them.
According to eBay phone support...hmmm...ummm....errr...we have so many listings....errr....not to worry I will report this....why is it the same seller does it over and over? Errr...hmmm...we give sellers warnings....ummmm....I see this seller SANDRO has gotten many warnings and is just not paying attention....hmmm....errrr....I will forward this along....no I can't tell you why the seller hasn't been suspended....errrrr....if you report items sometimes we are too busy....ummmm....
How convenient that they get PAID for their CRAPATHY. The authors get screwed. Some book thieves have gotten HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS off this good doctor's book. The book thieves see which authors don't seem to have a VeRO rep, or don't have anyone caring about their rights...and it's wheeeee...FREE MONEY! All the book thief does is email the file.
Here's an assortment of the book thieves, and their obvious, often illiterate, often obnoxious copy about what they do and how they are entitled to do it.
GOT THAT? Ayyyy, don't ask for no REFUNDS. Is not real book is DIGITAL BOOK you get when ME send EMAIL. Hey EBAY, I am either the author or I am licensed to sell this. Since you are "just a venue" you are not going to ask me to prove it? Ha ha!
Want to see what one of these arrogant bully BOOK THIEVES looks like?
This greasy scumbag looks like he's a prosperous drug dealer. But he's just a penny ante BOOK THIEF. On LINKED IN, he tells the world he runs a web design outfit. Yeah, he's doing SO well with THAT, that he's instantly replying to anyone who bargains him down on and submits "best offer" to him.
Authors work hard and most have a DAY JOB, and they can use whatever royalties they manage to get. EBAY is not helping matters.
An irony is that EBAY is fucking their own legit sellers. There are people who have "THE PLANT PARADOX" in hardcover or paperback, and would love to sell a copy, but bidders are lured away by the cheap downloads. "Say, why pay even $3.99 to "THRIFT BOOKS" for a real copy, when I can get a download for $2.00 and save shelf space, and read it on my fabulous Jeff Bezos KINDLE??"
PS, EBAY is also fucking sales on Jeff Bezos' AMAZON and on BARNES AND NOBLE and wherever LEGIT download books are sold.
It's pathetic that eBay actually has a "Digital Delivery" rule that its myopic drone-employees in Indonesia somewhere don't even understand, and it's ridiculous that THEY MAKE MONEY by shrugging and saying, "Gosh, we don't know WHY these items aren't being stopped..."
Lastly, it's outrageous that book companies don't have a "REPORT PIRACY" feature on their websites that work. SOME of them have one for AUTHORS ONLY, meaning that the template they use is keyed to the author's email. If you try to send in a complaint on behalf of the author, and the email doesn't match up, the book company won't care. Book companies are also half-assed fools who use DIGIMARC and other "Web Sheriff"-type organizations who obviously don't even check eBay despite taking a dollar or two for every DMCA they send in.
Book companies are so stupid, and apparently LOADED with money, they don't even assign an unpaid intern to send in DMCA's to eBAY. How easy is it? You simply email the VeRO program with the auction number. THAT'S ALL. It takes a minute. The violations on "The Plant Paradox" could be handled in less than 20 minutes. So the publisher, and the AUTHOR in this case (who might not know about the problem) are partially to blame.
Mostly, the shame and blame belongs on EBAY and PAYPAL for allowing BOOK THIEVES to prosper.
The good doctor's 22 BOOK THIEVES, is of course far less than for some of the better known books. Pudgy E.L. James would probably lead the list of most pirated authors, except the word "author" doesn't apply to these semi-illiterate, lurid, idiotic, marshmallow-brained hack. So having nearly 100 maggots stealing from HER is not going to cut into her ability to sit around stuffing chocolate into her hole.
The best thing to NOT reading her drivel is NOT paying for it.
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