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There be pirates, matey!

Book piracy is on the rise...as if we didn't have enough to contend with from Amazon and such, right? As the author of your book and the copyright holder, you are obliged to send the offending site who's giving away your book a DMCA Takedown Notice . It does not matter if you're self publishing or with a publisher, you are the author and the ultimate copyright holder so this is your responsibility. Where are pirated books coming from? Well, mostly from Amazon! If you look at the page source for books, you'll see book covers are coming out of Amazon's images files, and the books are filed by the book's ASIN, which is ONLY available from Amazon. Perhaps there are come consolations to pirated books: 1) Most pirated books which are being given away almost always have data mining viruses embedded in the book files. No one gains anything from giving away your book. But by embedding a virus to infiltrate the user's system, they can sell that information to