{"id":2513,"date":"2011-04-02T10:20:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T16:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2011-06-16T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T14:20:02","slug":"spamming-and-swindling-with-e-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"Spamming and Swindling with E-Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spammers and plagiarists target e-books (Kindle, etc.)<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike Essex<\/strong>, a Search Specialist at UK digital marketing agency Impact Media<\/strong><\/a>, believes that ebooks are the next frontier for content farmers and is already noticing an increasing number of spam e-books hitting ebookstores like the Kindle Store. He originally wrote about his discovery<\/a> on the Impact Media blog<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amazon does not care.<\/p>\n

Many ebook vendors don\u2019t check copyright on works that are submitted, and Essex noticed that people are stealing content from the web, quickly creating ebooks about the same topics from multiple angles in order to target different keyword variants, and publishing them\u2014some Kindle authors have \u201cwritten\u201d thousands of books in a single year. The Amazon.com<\/strong> domain name gives these books an added boost in search results; royalty payouts are high even when a book is priced at $0.99, and reviews aren\u2019t a surefire solution to combating the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More information at Making Light<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bad writers, yes. One man\u2019s trash is another man\u2019s pit of voles. But one of the advantages of e-book\/Kindle store\/et al that we keep hearing from the e-book enthusiasts<\/a> is that it bypasses the gatekeepers.<\/p>\n

\u201cStolen content and scammers\u201d is another area, and there isn\u2019t any pressure on Amazon to stop \u2018em, since they get their cut regardless. Adding acquiring editors would add time and expense, and keep the struggling geniuses whose works no one understand from ever getting published at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ain’t it wonderful? This is what happens when you “bypass the gatekeepers” (all those grumpy editors).<\/p>\n

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