Occasionally I Google my books to see how they are ranking. Yesterday I was concerned to discover that my book, “Street Walker and Other Stories”, which should be available only in the Amazon Kindle store, can, apparently be downloaded from the following (non-Amazon) link, (http://www.ectechnano.com/street-walker-and-other-stories.html).
I didn’t provide Street Walker to ectechnano.com and have no idea how the site obtained my book. Having researched ectechnano.com it appears that it is considered to be a “high risk” site. I am not sure what action to take other than filing a DMCA Notice with ectechnano.com’s Internet Service Provider (I am reluctant to use the contact form displayed on ectechnano.com’s site). Fellow authors may wish to check whether their works can be found on this site.
Kevin
Kevin – read the following article at:
Hope it helps 😀
Many thanks Chris. I will check it out. I don’t know how this happened as all of my titles have Digital Rights Management enabled which should, I understand make it extremely difficult to copy files. Kevin
DRM doesn’t seem to be a problem for them Kevin – the chances are that they’re an email Collection Farm rather than an actual book download site…
Yes, the same thing crossed my mind Chris. They do, however appear to have a download link for my book. However perhaps on attempting to download the downloader is asked for their details at that juncture. Kevin
I recommend that you do NOT try it out to check – in case a virus is sent to your PC Kevin…
Thanks Chris. That is sound advice and I won’t be trying it out. Kevin
Hope you get to the bottom of this. Nasty, nasty business.
Thank you Tess. Kevin
You are welcome. 🙂