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The worst thing is that ilivid may be installed into a computer with trojans, spyware and computer worm, which can steal your personal information or confidential date stored on your computer and send them to remote cyber criminal. Removal is a long winded operation manually, but heres a tool that will clean it up. Posted on Feb 03, 2013. 5189 Answers SOURCE: Where did you get the e-book from?
DEP exploits are a hackers dream. You can turn on and off the feature (Win7 has it on by default). Setting it can be done in the System section of the Control Panel under Performance Options. (The choices are Always ON, Always OFF, Opt-in or Opt-Out has more information on the different choices) In XP this can be changed by right clicking on My Computer, select Properties, click on the Advanced tab, then Settings in the Performance section. Finally click on the Data Execution Prevention tab.
I hope this helps. Cindy Wells Posted on Feb 21, 2010. Giveaways - One of the big perks of Kindle Direct Publishing is the giveaway. Amazon allows you to make your eBook available for downloading free of charge five days every 90-day period. This is a great opportunity to get a little free promotion and hopefully reviews when you first release your eBook. There are dozens of websites that announce free Kindle eBooks.
Social Media - This is another great place to build buzz for your new book. If you are in business to make money, you should always be culling and nurturing your following. Dec 10, 2014.
Directly from your manual: You can download eBooks in various formats from Online eBook stores such as:. www.gutenberg.org - Project Gutenberg has a children's section. www.freekidsbooks.org - Free Kids Books provides free eBooks for kids, especially young ones. www.classicly.com - Classicly has a large Young Readers section. www.classicreader.com - Classic Reader has a wide selection of classic books with a Young Readers section Feb 01, 2013.
I'm posting my conclusion at the beginning of this post, in case you stumble upon it and don't read every step of our kind of 'investigation' about site. We, authors, are getting a bit paranoid about our books being pirated, but when we get together, we can get to the bottom of it and send the pirate sites packing. If you read the post all the way down and the updates as well, you can follow the steps how we found out that Playster is indeed a legitimate business that respects copyright and their customer service, which is prompt and excellent by the way, clarified the issue we raised.
(read my correspondents with them in the updates) Margot's issue with YouTube had been successfully solved as well, the YouTube customer service was great too and removed Margot's videos and link to Playster from the people that used it as advertisement. I learned some new things from Playster's customer service as well. Since then I looked a little closer and there are a lot of advertising networks out there using all kinds of methods to direct traffic to the sites that pay them for advertisement. With this blog post I didn't mean to hurt a legitimate business that seemed fishy at first glance because of the questionable advertising method of the network they used. Thanks to their prompt and efficient customer service, our questions were answered and our worries were addressed Thank you Playster! I also got some useful info from Playster: They wrote, 'We’d love to let people know that they can browse our books library without needing to sign up, on – we feel this would help to clear up some uncertainties and, of course, show people exactly what we’re offering! We’re also keen to work with independent authors and smaller presses, and we’ve put together a blog which explains more about how we can help writers to earn what they deserve: Authors get together to investigate.
My book sales dropped drastically in 2015. Two-three years ago I had at least 50 sales a week, now I feel lucky if the publishing sites sell 1 or 2 of my books a month. Why is this sudden drop? People are reading more, because reading is made so convenient nowadays. I see people reading on their tablet, Kindle, Nook devices, and even on their phones. The eBooks are reasonably priced, and with Amazon's subscription deal, people can borrow as many books a month as they want. It's not only my books that have low sales, but every author I know is reporting low sales.
So, with more readers, why our book sales are dropping and not increasing? Pirate sites have been stealing our books, so from time to time I do a Google search of my books, knowing that new pirate sites are popping up every day like mushrooms after a summer rain. I thought, let me see who's trying to steal my books, again. It happened before, I've found my books with the books of author friends posted as free PDF download on two pirate sites, but with the help of my author friends on Facebook (we have bombarded the site with take down demand), we successfully sent the pirate site packing in panic, within a few days. I find sites from time to time, mostly India/Pakistan sites that post my books as a free download, but usually they respond right away with an apology and they remove my books promptly. If I'm not mistaken these sites build up Google rank by attracting viewers, and when the site reaches page rank 3 or 4, they clear the site and sell it to companies that don't want to bother with rank building.
So, yesterday I searched the first book of my fantasy series, and I've found it on the usual publishing sites. I also found possibly Amazon affiliates sites such as the one on the screenshot. Ha, I didn't know that my book is sold on Spanish, Swedish, German and French sites either, I just found out. I couldn't see the actual post of my book because the site only shows a few bestseller books, and when I click it keeps popping up the sign up window. Of course they want my credit card for the 30 day free trial, which they're not going to get, so I did a little research about this site.
I found this article: HarperCollins Inks Content Deal with Plays 'About Playster: Playster was created as a response to the explosive demand and desire of consumers to stream content on electronic and mobile devices. Having broadened its horizons by incorporating games, music, film and books to its streaming service, Playster emerged as a leading multimedia platform built with user interaction in mind acting as a one-stop shop for entertainment. Thus, the mantra: Everything Unlimited.' Okay, it's nice and dandy, if they sign a contract that means the authors are getting royalty payment. However, so far I haven't found anything about Amazon, B&N or Smashwords where my books are published by my publisher company - Golden Box Books - signing any contract with Playster to sell my books. I cannot be sure that my books are indeed on this site, because I'm not willing to risk my credit card being stolen to find out, but if it is not, why are there websites that post my book and direct the viewer to the Playster site? Anyway, if my book is on this site, they haven't contacted me as the author and publisher either to give them the rights to sell my copyrighted books.
I'm still searching for contact info and as soon as I find the way, I will ask them if my book is posted on their site, and if it is, who gave them the rights to offer my book for free, collect the subscription fee from those who read it. Before they put my book on their site, they better get my permission, send me a contract and pay royalty, otherwise it is simply stealing! I just got an email from my children's author friend, that her video on Youtube had been posted by Jorge Mcmillan and Ruben Sweet, and both are directing the viewer to the Playster site to read her book for free. Is this the newest scam to steal copyrighted books? Are there any protection for authors against book pirating? Does everyone get paid by selling books except the author who worked countless hours for years to produce a book? We have to find out, I will keep you posted with updates.
Questionable site links-possible pirate sites. Finally I found contact information to the Playster site and sent them an inquiry email.
As soon as I get an answer, I will post an update. Meanwhile, I continued my search and found very contradicting information about the site.
There is an advertisement video on Youtube, it highly praises the site, but the comments are very interesting and worth reading: If you find any new information, please post it in comment. I checked my books on the site Margot posted the link to, and I did find my books on it too.
They posted the old versions and my unpublished books are on their site too, but not the updated versions or newly published books. I checked my books on the site Margot posted the link to, and I did find my books on it too. They posted the old versions and my unpublished books are on their site too, but not the updated versions or newly published books. This gave me an idea: I've been seeing these sites, more this year, but 2-3 years ago they all required to sign up for membership in order to view or download the books.
However, now they're redirecting viewers to the Playster site. What if the hundreds of pirate sites were built and run for years for one reason, to collect viewers direct traffic to the Playster site when it becomes live? The site is in Beta mode right now, but they will expand to full mode in September, so everyone can easily download and read, watch movies or play on mobile devices.
At first, a lot of author groups got together and made these sites close, but new ones popped up every day, so it became too overwhelming. I think it is possible, but the question of royalty payment to the authors, whose books are on the site, still remains open. Please post any updates or information you find, eventually we will get to the bottom of this.
As I mentioned in the post, my biggest worry is that hundreds or thousands of authors (the site promises 100,000 books for free) could be cheated out of their royalty payments, and their copyrighted books could be stolen and offered for free for members, which profits only the site owners and not the authors who worked hard and invested a lot of time and money to publish the books as Zita mentioned in her comment. I got an email from Playster: ' Dear Erika, I can confirm that we’re not providing this title (Protected By The Falcon) to our members. All of our content is licensed, and copyright protection is extremely important to us. If you’ve seen something online which you believe constitutes an infringement, please provide more details (including specific URLs of pages which make reference to your copyrighted material) and we’ll investigate it as a matter of priority. Very truly yours, Playster' I replied and sent them the site link that directed me to Playster promising a free download of my book.
Let's see if they're going to reply with an answer why I was directed to their site from this link. I received another email from Playster: ' Dear Erika, We acknowledge receipt of your complaint and we hereby confirm that Playster.com does not host the copyrighted material Protected by the Falcon.
We do not own or control the website you referred to in your complaint: We share our link with advertising networks, but because we don’t own or control the sites within these networks the only solution is to submit a DMCA takedown notice with the applicable site owner. We have sent, on your behalf, a formal takedown notice to an advertising network that we use, and if we do not hear back from them within 24 hours we will block this site from advertising our products. Copyright protection is extremely important to us, and we can assure you that protected content hosted on Playster has been duly paid for in accordance with license contracts that we signed with each of our content providers. Very truly yours, Playster' Doesn't it seem like the advertising network they use has to be the one who have these websites? It's a strong possibility! But at least they assured me that my book is not pirated by Playster, and as they mentioned in the email, most likely a big business like this is not going to take a chance at ruining their reputation and business to steal books.
I think we have more reason to worry about the 'little fish' smaller websites that offer our books as free PDF download. If you find your books on sites that seems fishy, post the link in comment and I will add it to the list in this post. Then, together, we can bombard those sites with takedown notices and send them packing. New: Playster indeed contacted this site owner, because he sent me an email: ' Musara Idaman 11:18 AM (48 minutes ago) Hello. Please give me youre book url So i can remove in base. Note: just info, my site not publish any book, my site like search engine and there are no files on the server Regards' Sounds like the person who owns this website is from India.
I suspect that these sites (thousands of them) are paid by the advertising networks to direct traffic with promise of FREE stuff (including books of course) to the site they're advertising. You don't want your book showing on this site? I didn't see a contact button on the site, but here is the owner's email: musarapp@yahoo.com The sneaky ways SCAMMERS take advantage of authors. Goodreads book GIVEAWAY scam: Fellow author Darlene Deluca posted this in comment, but I'm going to add it here so everyone who reads the post can see it: 'Another, smaller way in which some people make money off of authors.
I recently visited with a book club where one of the gals had purchased a print copy of my book. Turns out it already had a signature and a bookmark in it - means it was a freebie from my Goodreads giveaway. I got a reader, which I appreciate, but the winner of the book made money from it. I didn't!!' My Facebook experience with print giveaways: There was a scam going around on Facebook two years ago.
I got a message to my author page from a woman bamed Susan, who said that my series is so intriguing and she would love to read it, but she can't read ebooks and can't afford to buy prints. She asked if I could send her complimentary copies for reviews. I replied that I don't have prints at home, I might send her book 1 when I order copies. I completely forgot about her when a few month later I read a post from a fellow author.
Apparently this woman lived in Alaska and joined some two hundred author groups. She contacted authors asking for print books, and a lot of authors sent it to her. The point is this long story that Susan owned a used bookstore in Alaska, and sold the signed books she got from the authors. Needless to say, she never posted any reviews, thus the reason for this author getting suspicious and tracked her down. I can't post the author's name without her permission, but with a group of her author friends she had the thief banned from all the social site, they reported her to the police and she was forced to close her book store.
I lost track of what happened after that because the author got so fed up that she deleted all her social site profiles. I want to mention another GIFTING books for REVIEW scam: I have a strong suspicion that scammers discovered another way of making money of unsuspecting authors. In March, when I published the updated version of my fantasy series, I did a Facebook event and gave out 8 books as gifts for review. I purchased the books as gift on Amazon and I added the recipient's emails. Very easy to do, so I thought that because it's a verified purchase, if the reader will post a review, that will be legit and Amazon will accept it. I was mistaken! Out of the 8 people only 4 accepted the gift, so at the time, I thought that my account will be credited with the price of the book, because the recipient didn't accept it.
My account WAS NOT credited, but the four people I gifted the book never read it, never posted a review, instead they POCKETED the money and probably bought something else on Amazon WITH MY MONEY! Moreover, out of the 4 who accepted the gift, only 2 posted review (nice ones) BUT one of the reviews were taken down by Amazon in July. Amazon's answer to my inquiry was that I know the reviewer. I DO NOT know her, she's not my friend on ANY social site, the only thing I knew about her was her name and email address that I sent the gift to.
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This made me realize that giving out your book as a gift for review is another SCAM that ruthless people use to cheat you out of money.