Our friend Rhonda Rees is having another “Check Your Books” PSA campaign online piracy event during the first annual “Indie Author Day” on October 8. If you are planning on attending this event be sure to stop by and visit with Rhonda about this issue that is effecting authors. Here is a section from the article and the link so you can view the complete article for the “Check Your Books” campaign on PRWeb: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/09/prweb13717092.htm
During the month of October, she is encouraging authors and publishers to run detailed Google and Bing searches to see if their work is compromised by being offered for “free” without their knowledge or permission. She wants them to plug in the title of their book, or books, the author’s name, and the words ‘free downloads’ to see what comes up.
Unfortunately, this is a subject that Rees knows about first-hand. Her US copyrighted, trademarked, registered and award-winning book, “Profit and Prosper with Public Relations®: Insider Secrets to Make You a Success was being offered as a free download on several sites without her consent. https://www.amazon.com/Profit-Prosper-Public-Relations-Rhonda/dp/0982223501
Rees is far from the only one that this situation is happening to. Countless other unsuspecting authors across the globe are also left vulnerable to these unscrupulous Internet thieves. “It’s not just the famous recording artists and celebrities that are being ripped off anymore. Instead, online book piracy is having an impact on the average person in a very big way,” says Rees.