lucifersprize

Thanks to sanshal and stir_of_echoes, this has already gotten around pretty quickly, but I thought I'd boost the signal.

The Ebooks Tree site is apparently pulling works of fiction from AO3 and hosting them as PDFs and mobi downloads on their site. There's a link to a Tumblr with helpful suggestions for requesting a takedown Here!.

They have my MTW verse there as a single download, though they don't list anything else I've posted. But if you post to AO3, you might want to check if your fic isn't on offer at Ebooks tree, too. There is apparently no charge to download from them, but a friend tells me that site does deflect to two others which do charge to download or read, so somebody is making profit off of fic that isn't theirs.

Ebooks Tree is not reading your “do not copy/duplicate” notes on your AO3 fic; their bots are pulling things directly from AO3, without AO3′s authorization or assent. AO3 is aware of the situation, and is working on it.

Unfortunately, it seems that once you are on one site there are dozens of others, all leading back through various download sites to the same place claiming not to charge but insisting on your credit card details - Huge Game.net - and these guys don't give out their contact unless you have... guess what...signed up with your credit card. HINT- DON'T. I can see that one of their faq's is 'why have you charged my credit card?'


Just a selection I've come across with my fic (some claim to be forums but have 'innocent bloggers' redirecting to the download links - they are all similar)

http://oxucu.webgostaresh.ir/
http://mustreadbooks.brcleanair.org/
http://booklikes.com/
freeabooks.com
http://readpdf.rulfet.net/
http://www.allpdfs.pw/
http://downloadbookonline.tk/

They seem to be breeding. I don't think they actually care about copyright because I suspect it is actually all about getting credit card details.