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I can't tell if any of my LIT stories have been pirated. I feel slighted, ignored. Woe is me.i found one of my old stories on a website that i'd never even heard of. google directed me there since they credited my screen name here. oddly, i feel like it's an affirmation.
I can't tell if any of my LIT stories have been pirated. I feel slighted, ignored. Woe is me.
i found one of my old stories on a website that i'd never even heard of. google directed me there since they credited my screen name here. oddly, i feel like it's an affirmation.
Yes, that's a bit of a worry, someone building a more aggressive seo driver.It bothered me that Google actually found the stories on other sites before it found it on Lit.
Edit2: Found one for real. "Valentines for Cinderella" is on Amazon, supposedly authored by someone named Chan Shah.
Yes, that's a bit of a worry, someone building a more aggressive seo driver.
Do you have enough ownership precedence evidence to get a take down on the published book?
You are too unique. Doing that with 'hypoxia' returns much medical material, but not myself.oggbashan said:I can. I just search for "copyright oggbashan"Hypoxia said:I can't tell if any of my LIT stories have been pirated. I feel slighted, ignored. Woe is me.
I just found a site that HAD my stories, all in chronological order, but "randystories.com" is only google-cached now -- it's gone under since 5 Feb 2019. No, I must admit that, even after six years, my words are not worth stealing. I shall discard any delusions of adequacy.But my stories have been on Lit for a decade and a half. Time will tell.
The story was published on Lit two years before it was published by Amazon, but I don't know how I'm going to prove I'm NotWise. I'm also not sure I care that much.
Related question: what's the subtlety, does anyone know (as in hard knowledge, not speculation), of a complete book version of a novel or novella compiled with a cover, proper book formatting, downloadable e-book formats, registered ISBN, blah blah blah, vs the Literotica version which is text content only (and in my hypothetical case multiple chapters, thus not all content available in one place and not directly downloadable) - thus not the same saleable "product"?Click on the "tell us about a lower price" button and report that it's available free on Literotica, giving a link to your story. I'd have reported it myself, but I don't have an Amazon login.
You can probably get it taken down without proving ownership.
Related question: what's the subtlety, does anyone know (as in hard knowledge, not speculation), of a complete book version of a novel or novella compiled with a cover, proper book formatting, downloadable e-book formats, registered ISBN, blah blah blah, vs the Literotica version which is text content only (and in my hypothetical case multiple chapters, thus not all content available in one place and not directly downloadable) - thus not the same saleable "product"?
Has anybody actually tested this? That is, argued that the Lit version of a novel or novella is not the same as, say, a kindle version because, well, they're demonstrably not the same product. One is a bunch of content, whereas the other is A Book which can be down-loaded. The corollary is that a bunch of spare parts isn't a washing machine, but a washing machine is. If that makes sense.
In other words, do authors taking their content to the marketplace actually have to remove it from Lit to preserve their Amazon price?
Note: this question sets aside the logic of, "Why would you want to leave it here if you want to sell it?" which is a separate can of worms. Curious minds want to know.
My thoughts exactly. As you say, whatever it means to Amazon, so far as sales on kindle are concerned; but I figure their price matching algorithms will be looking at other book sale outlets with a price attached, not a passive, non-down-loadable data dump at Literotica with no definable "product" and no pricing information at all.I actually do this, though it's through Smashwords rather than Amazon. If I had to choose only one, I would keep my stories on Literotica, because I value the reads and reader interaction more than the bucks I get from Smashwords sales, and I'm not interested in the promotional effort required to increase those sales.
I'm not sure whether having the stories up on Literotica helps or harms my Smashwords sales. On the one hand, people can read them for free without having to buy the Smashwords version at all. On the other, I get the impression a significant percentage of my SW sales come from people who read the stories free here and decided to toss me a few bucks, either as a tip or because they wanted an e-reader-friendly version.
Amazon's policy is to get the sale from the other book seller wanting the sale, or at least price match. It's not in their interest to price match to zero, because then there's no money in it for them.
Update: randystories is back and my LIT catalog is there... but I seem not to be otherwise burglarized. Should I be grateful?Hypoxia said:I just found a site that HAD my stories, all in chronological order, but "randystories.com" is only google-cached now -- it's gone under since 5 Feb 2019.