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A group of publishers in the UK have won a lawsuit against several overseas pirate websites that distribute eBooks for free in the UK without paying a royalty to the publishers or authors.
A ruling by the High Court in London determined that the sites violated the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The ruling requires British internet service providers (ISPs) including BT, Virgin Media and Sky to block access to the sites named in the complaint within 10 days.
The sites include: Ebookee, LibGen, AvaxHome, Freebookspot, Freshwap, Bookfi and Bookre. According to the Publishers Association UK, these sites host about “10,000,000 ebook titles and have been making substantial sums of money, primarily through referral fees and advertising. None of this money has been going back to either the publisher or the author(s) of the works.” (Via The Financial Times).
The world of publishing is going crazy about e-book publishing and the world of opportunities that the digital world offers. However, like everything else, ebooks too have a flip side to them. Here’s an unbiased opinion on ebooks and ebook publishing, and some piece of advice every now and then in between. Let’s look at [...]
