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How to prevent ebook piracy from stealing your livelihood?
Is there a practical, effective way to prevent this IP theft?
Yes.
As someone who has pirated countless books, I might give you some insight into my frame of mind. There's a very simple way you can ...
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How to prevent ebook piracy from stealing your livelihood?
There is probably no stopping of file sharing in the modern world.
But there is a chance we can make it cool to be backer and investor, sponsor and patron.
Patreon, flattr, kickstarter, indiegogo ...
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How overcome the budget constraint while building a fiction writing career?
My advice is to ignore the people that advocate writing a book in one month, or two, or three.
Even with no other duties, it takes me at least six months to finish my fifth draft of a book, and I may ...
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How to prevent ebook piracy from stealing your livelihood?
If you want people to be honest, make it easy for them to do so.
Eighteen years ago, there was a hugely popular computer program called "Napster". It let people share their music collections with ...
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Do I have to pay royalties if I include excerpts from other works?
You sign a contract with the copyright owner.
The contract specifies the arrangement.
Permission to use the quote in your work.
Permission to use the quote in derivative works (electronic, ...
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How can my book purchase get the most money to an author?
In most cases, traditionally published authors are paid by the publisher. They are paid an advance on royalties when the book is purchased. If the book earns out — sells enough copies to cover the ...
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How can my book purchase get the most money to an author?
You should buy whichever format you prefer. Prices will be adapted to cover cost. In the end, authors will earn the same.
You should not buy from Amazon, when a book is available elsewhere too, as ...
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Is a professional editor worth the cost?
I can't quite answer your point directly because I wouldn't dream of publishing without three rounds of edits: developmental, copy, and proof.
But this is a personal preference and the answer depends ...
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How to prevent ebook piracy from stealing your livelihood?
As a blog author and publisher and open source programmer, I feel even more exposed to "IP theft".
But "IP theft" does not exist for me when I write or publish program source codes, even though I ...
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As an author, how can you ensure that your agent/publisher isn’t ripping you off by pocketing your money and giving you false info about sales?
How can you be sure your employer is telling the truth when she says there's no money for bonuses this year? Or your local farmer's market farmer who says the early rain messed with the harvest and ...
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How to prevent ebook piracy from stealing your livelihood?
It is sad but true that without strict enforcement of anti-piracy laws, and in the absence of broad cultural perceptions that consider the act of acquiring and reading a pirated ebook as either ...
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Do writers need a business bank account?
First, I am not a business lawyer, or tax attorney. The following are my understandings from being in business, do not rely on this as legal advice, and you should consult with a business lawyer or ...
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How can my book purchase get the most money to an author?
Advice from an author:
From the blog of Ilona and Andrew Gordon, authors:
Where is the best place to buy your books that gets you the best returns for revenue/publicity? I’ve been buying my books ...
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How to prevent ebook piracy from stealing your livelihood?
I've been giving this some thought, and while I don't have a complete answer to this problem here are my current thoughts as a fellow IP creator (different industry, same problem):
Bear in mind that ...
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How overcome the budget constraint while building a fiction writing career?
One way to build your "list" is to contribute shorter works to anthologies -- someone may buy(borrow) the book because of interest in the topic/prompt OR because they know one writer in it (Peter ...
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How Much Can You Make From Writing a Book?
Traditional publishing pays the author about $1 per hardback and $.50 on each paperback sale. Midlist authors usually get advances in the $10,000 range for a first run hardback. With the goal to make ...
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Royalty rate for edition of estate-held text
Normally the royalty rate you find online are calculated on the cover price, so 40% is very high.
The "reasonable range" is more line 10-25% with 15% being the most common. (25% for ebook, where ...
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Pay rate and terms for writing book series under contract
It's unclear if these books are ebook only, print only or both.
If it's an ebook, then that's not a bad deal at all (especially if you are interested in the topic).
The 600 is basically an advance....
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Comics marketing: focus on issues or collections?
individual issues 50¢
eBook ~ $2
printed book in stores ~ $5
direct sale ~ $7+
I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but starting with observations.
Your marketing should focus on the one type of ...
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Is a professional editor worth the cost?
I hired an editor in my early days as a comic book scripter, and I think she was absolutely invaluable in helping me learn the basics of the form I was writing in. If you're breaking into the script ...
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How much should I pay the copyright holder for the right to translate a book and sell copies?
After reading the edits and clarifications and other answers, my suggestion is that you approach this in a similar way to publishing a book in general.
Offer royalties on sales of the book plus an ...
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Why would a movie studio pay for a script?
Because litigation is expensive, both in terms of actual dollars but in terms of reputation.
Harlan Ellison's threat of litigation was enough to get him an undisclosed cash settlement and an ...
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Copyright Lyrics to Songs
If you are in the US, your lyrics were copyrighted the moment you put them on paper. (I can't speak for other countries.)
If you want to register your copyright in the US to make it easier to ...
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How to prevent ebook piracy from stealing your livelihood?
Watermarking.
This is common with high-priced (>$30) documents, such as building codes and scientific journal articles. The downloaded file will include "Purchased by [email protected]" in the footer ...
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How to prevent ebook piracy from stealing your livelihood?
Apparently the following section requires emphasis! :-)
I do not endorse this solution, I do not USE this solution, I am a semi-retired professor in computer science that is aware of this product, I ...
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Comics marketing: focus on issues or collections?
You are over thinking it. Do not optimize based on assumptions. Optimize based on data. The marketing focus should be based on the sales you get in response to marketing. Try lots of things. Keep ...
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