So, an interesting thing happened yesterday., book thieves put themselves on my radar. I noticed a post on Twitter talking about a rogue company that was offering their books for free. On the off chance that I might be impacted, I went to the website and did a search.
Lo and behold, my book was listed as available for free…and it had a 4 star rating. WTF? I was shocked because I can’t get ANYONE who’s read it to actually do a review.
This is definitely some kind of scam website, but it does bring up a problem that plagues authors. If you read a book that you haven’t paid for (unless it was a legitimate offer from the writer), then we receive no royalties on that transaction. Zero. Zip. Nada.
Like musicians and other artists we rely on book sales for at least some of our income. Such activities impact our livelihood in a negative fashion. Please keep this in mind and help a brother out…
