eBooks: International Publisher Alliance Shuts Down Piracy Sites
From an Article By Katie Allen on The Bookseller:
“An international alliance of publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Elsevier and Pearson Education Ltd, has served successful cease-and-desist orders on a piracy operation with an estimated turnover of £7m.
Much more from Publishers Weekly and direct from the Associaiton of American Publishers
Publishers and others still have a LOT of work to combat ebook piracy. Many other aggregation sites specializing in pirated ebooks remain. A search at Xmarks, SimilarSiteSearch,, and SimilarPages will provide links to other sites like the ones taken down today.
Filed under: Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Publishing
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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