Why pay over $20 for the hardcover? Why pay over $10 for an Amazon eBook?
BOTH of these guys are being counterfeited and bootlegged on EBAY, with help from PAYPAL, for as low as $2.49 or 2.99
Who would be low enough and craven enough and scummy enough to do such penny-ante thievery?
Look to SRI LANKA and MOROCCO. That's where the dirt-faced, grinning weasels proliferate, like dung beetles on shit.
PAYPAL and EBAY are pimps who get a percentage on this.
PAYPAL has rules against counterfeiting. Too bad most people have no idea how to go through the hoops and tell them about it. When they make money off illegal sales, why would they be THAT concerned with booting the bootleggers? They'd prefer to be Sgt. Schultz and knnnnow nnnnnuthing.
EBAY actually has a rule against selling digital downloads. After all, it's the professionals (like Amazon) who have that technology. All the scumbags from Morocco and Sri Lanka do is get a GOOGLE cloud and then PM the link to the winning bidder.
EBAY ads look "legit." There's nothing in there about the GOOGLE cloud, and of course, nothing about how NOBODY legit offers both ePub and kindle and PDF versions in the same download. They just offer a very "professional" looking ad:
An IRONY with EBAY, is that like any terrorist group from the stinky rat-ridden sun-baked bastard countries of the region, the creeps in Sri Lanka are very well organized. It's not just a few sub-human roaches having a game. Every time they direct an eBay bidder to the GOOGLE CLOUD where the GOODIES can be downloaded, a PDF "read this" is included:
These backstabbers don't like sharing with EBAY if they don't absolutely have to. Once they hook a customer, it's bye-bye EBAY and BUY BUY direct for $1.99. The money adds up. Meanwhile the authors, who are willing to settle for $1.99 as a book royalty, don't even get THAT. It goes to a semi-literate subhuman roach who happens to be part of a lawless cartel that is coddled way too much by American bureaucracy and stupidity.
How, you might ask, does one report an ILLEGAL item on eBAY? Well, there's a teeny tiny "report item" link in every ad.
Click that, and you get a load of hoops. It's up to YOU to figure out WHERE to report it. Assuming you figure out that you report a counterfeit digital file by pulling down THREE menu options (listing practices, other listing practices, digitally delivered goods), your complaint goes...to GUAM. Maybe SRI LANKA. It sure doesn't go to San Jose (executive office) or Draper, Utah (main complex for personnel).
It goes to some sleepy person who has PRIORITIES, and frankly, EBAY admits that digital piracy may be ignored if there's a lot of porn, gun, drug or other complaints going on.
EBAY also has some dazed "English as second language" stooge fielding complaints for sellers who PRETEND to be in legit place but aren't. A lot of the Sri Lanka weasels put "NEW YORK" as their location, so that bidders will be less suspicious. An interesting EBAY GLITCH will show, if you click on the seller's name, where the seller REALLY is.
Here's a lazy mole from Morocco who figured he'd just use Casablanca as his location, and claim Casablanca is in AMERICA....
In this case, the report goes to listing practices, other listing practices, item location misrepresentation:
Technically, a hard-hitting pink-lipped hero like Ronan Farrow, who cares so much about morality, would have somebody on his vast staff checking EBAY for theft of his intellectual property and copyright. It takes exactly a MINUTE to file a DMCA to eBay's VeRO (verified rights owner) email address.
You'd also think that in these troubled times, publishing companies would want to make sure to get a royalty on EVERY sale, and especially crack down on EBAY where the slime from Morocco and Sri Lanka get a bigger royalty on a theft than THEY do. Some EBAY dealers charge as much s $7.99 for their bootleg, figuring the average bidder has NO idea that the usual suspects (forums, GOOGLE blogs, torrent websites) have this stuff for FREE. Which is where the EBAY dealers get it.
Bidders who type in an author or book title on EBAY and discover they can get a cheap download, are THRILLED. Do they know this stuff is bootlegged?
You'd think that the publishing world, which is SUPPOSEDLY full of brighter people than the music world or the movie world, would know from the destruction of record stores and the emptying of movie theaters, that PIRACY KILLS. Yet, bookstores keep going under, and the big shots like Jeff Bezos and Amazon dictate what paltry percentage they're willing to give to the talent. The answer would be for RONAN and WOODY's publishers to do the minimum, and draft an unpaid intern to file DMCA's and get the bootleggers suspended ASAP. Instead, they're SAPS.
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