I’ve just been advised by Author Jack Eason that the following Facebook Site is offering six of his books in PDF format – WITHOUT AUTHORISATION, PERMISSION OR PAYMENT AGREEMENT WITH HIM…
Please check if YOUR BOOKS are being offered without YOUR permission.
If YES, NOTIFY FACEBOOK IMMEDIATELY…
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Just checked I had shared its FB link to my FB page with a warning eBook Pirates.. This morning its no longer there. 😉
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GOOD…
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I just checked my timeline and the link and warning I posted are gone, as well, but so too is the entire Facebook page for this site! Seems as though Facebook has removed it altogether. General EBooks is still there, however. Maybe Facebook will pay attention now if we all begin complaining about them.
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I got a reply from FB on one of my three reportings, it was not in contravention of that particular complaint, but nothing yet on the other two reports 😀
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Reblogged this on Everything Indie and commented:
Do NOT send your proof of copyright to this site! Instead, send a takedown request to Facebook.
A sample takedown request was provided by S.K. Nicholls in the comment section of this blog post by Chris the Story Reading Ape. I have reproduced it here:
My attorney warned me not to click on them, but to send a form letter to their server. You can find out their server here: http://www.whois.com/whois/
A copy of the take down form letter to send:
SAMPLE DMCA TAKE DOWN NOTICE
My name is INSERT NAME and I am the INSERT TITLE of INSERT COMPANY NAME. A website that your company hosts (according to WHOIS information) is infringing on at least one copyright owned by my company.
An article was copied onto your servers without permission. The original ARTICLE/PHOTO, to which we own the exclusive copyrights, can be found at:
PROVIDE WEBSITE URL
The unauthorized and infringing copy can be found at:
PROVIDE WEBSITE URL
This letter is official notification under Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (”DMCA”), and I seek the removal of the aforementioned infringing material from your servers. I request that you immediately notify the infringer of this notice and inform them of their duty to remove the infringing material immediately, and notify them to cease any further posting of infringing material to your server in the future.
Please also be advised that law requires you, as a service provider, to remove or disable access to the infringing materials upon receiving this notice. Under US law a service provider, such as yourself, enjoys immunity from a copyright lawsuit provided that you act with deliberate speed to investigate and rectify ongoing copyright infringement. If service providers do not investigate and remove or disable the infringing material this immunity is lost. Therefore, in order for you to remain immune from a copyright infringement action you will need to investigate and ultimately remove or otherwise disable the infringing material from your servers with all due speed should the direct infringer, your client, not comply immediately.
I am providing this notice in good faith and with the reasonable belief that rights my company owns are being infringed. Under penalty of perjury I certify that the information contained in the notification is both true and accurate, and I have the authority to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright(s) involved.
Should you wish to discuss this with me please contact me directly.
Thank you.
/s/YOUR NAME
Address
City, State Zip
Phone
E-mail
____________
Thank you, S.K. Nicholls
Please read the comments on the original blog post to understand the extent of this piracy and the danger of sending your copyright proof to this site.
SPREAD THE WORD and SHARE
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Thanks Connie…
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Well, I’ve been clicking through and their site links all go to http://www.urbooklibrary.com that, in turn, directs you to a site called Ovplay, which as far as I can make out, is all about credit card fraud. So I’m no longer certain if they have our books or are using them as bait.
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Either way, we need to shut them down Aldrea – You’ve identified another site to target – someone else gave a different source site…
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You’ll have no disagreement with me on that one.
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After I shared this on my blog, they blocked me (I have never used their site). Chris, I am going to refer anyone who contacts me with questions to your blog, if you don’t mind.
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Refer them to my article AND the comments under it Michelle – it will be interesting to see if I’m blocked as well (I had reported them to FB as Spam, acting against copyright and illegal after checking them out and posting the warning to everyone…
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Thanks so much for this post. I will definitely share and I have BLOCKED this FB page. Unfortunately, I was able to find all four of my books on a site they had listed as http://ebookee.org/ I just don’t know what to do now. Any suggestions? Again, thank you for posting this notice.
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Bette, my books are all on http://ebookee.org too. I sent a note to my publisher to ask how to handle. I’ll let you know what she says.
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Please do
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It seems they’re deleting all their books. It makes me so mad to find a collective 2000 downloads, 1900 from two books that aren’t doing very well in sales.
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Reblogged this on Wendy Anne Darling and commented:
AUTHORS BEWARE! COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ALERT!
Can you believe it? This website is posting many of my dear author friends’ eBooks away for FREE, with no permission from them!
I did,’t expect to find my own little mid-grade, Silver Lightning, on here but… there it is! Please take a look at this blog post to see if yours are on there too and take action!
Wendy Anne Darling
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Thanks for spreading the word Wendy…
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Small update: They’re obviously panicking and deleting the majority of the books they offer. Both of mine have now disappeared from their site, including a few others I’d seen on there.
Granted, they (or others like them) will undoubtedly wait for the dust to settle before re-uploading the stolen files somewhere else, but at least this proves that with enough man power, we can stop things like this. I suppose we all just need to stay vigilant and spread the word when we catch wind of something fraudulent.
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Judging by the reactions to my post, they must be wondering what’s happened to make all you authors hit them at the same time Callum – They’ll know that someone somewhere is watching them and advising you – I hope they have a large laundry bill for their soiled pants…
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Reblogged this on Dancing With The MS MonSter and commented:
Authors! Beware!
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Thanks Rebecca…
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