Internet Book Piracy: The Fight to Protect Authors, Publishers, and Our Culture

The foreign conflict opposed to net pirates has been heating up. more and more legislations enforcement is being attentive to e-book piracy as book publishing profits an ever-larger marketplace percentage. With this hazard to their healthiness or even survival, publishers and authors needs to act very like the tune, movie, and software program giants that experience waged struggle opposed to pirates for the previous twenty years. Now, The conflict opposed to web Piracy opens a dialogue on what occurs to the sufferers of piracy. Drawing from a number of interviews—from writers, self-publishers, mainstream publishers, researchers, scholars, admitted pirates, unfastened speech advocates, lawyers, and native and foreign legislations enforcement officials—the textual content speaks to such concerns as:

•Why pirates have acted and the way they believe approximately it
•The clash over constitutional rights and piracy
•The present legislation surrounding net piracy
•Examples of circumstances taken opposed to a few pirates
•Alternatives to piracy
•Personal stories of being ripped off
•The methods piracy impacts varied industries and the way they’ve responded

Author Gini Graham Scott prepares readers to arm themselves opposed to those sleek perils by means of studying approximately copyright, infringement, and the way to avoid, strive against, and finish e-book piracy.

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a wide variety of books at the visible and appearing arts, with emphasis at the enterprise of paintings. Our titles disguise topics similar to picture layout, theater, branding, high-quality paintings, images, inside layout, writing, performing, movie, how one can commence careers, company and felony kinds, enterprise practices, and extra. whereas we do not aspire to submit a New York Times bestseller or a countrywide bestseller, we're deeply devoted to caliber books that support inventive pros be successful and thrive. we regularly submit in components ignored through different publishers and welcome the writer whose services will help our viewers of readers.

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