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Dear friends,
Scribd is is the Netflix of books, right? Neat! Also nope, bc they encourage rampant piracy of books & don& #39;t allow users to report copyright infringement--only pubs & authors can do so. I& #39;ve started collecting texts here: https://www.scribd.com/lists/23828427/pirated">https://www.scribd.com/lists/238...
Scribd is is the Netflix of books, right? Neat! Also nope, bc they encourage rampant piracy of books & don& #39;t allow users to report copyright infringement--only pubs & authors can do so. I& #39;ve started collecting texts here: https://www.scribd.com/lists/23828427/pirated">https://www.scribd.com/lists/238...
I can& #39;t do this all day--though I quite literally could put in an entire 24 hours and still not have tackled every pirated book on there, especially since they& #39;re in all languages--but my list is a good place for you to start.
I am BEGGING YOU--look through the list for your name, for your friends& #39; names, for books by the publishers you work for, for languages you speak. Share the list and the page for reporting copyright infringement.
I really think the only way Scribd will give a fuck is if they get hugely bombarded in one short span of hours. And I would just personally feel really cool and famous if I were the person who started the fire. I hate when tech bros take advantage of easily eroded civil rights.
Again, that link for my collection of #piratedbooks available on #Scribd is here. There are famous authors and debuts, adult/YA/kids, white and nonwhite....no discrimination here! Scribd gladly accepts piracy of all backgrounds. https://www.scribd.com/lists/23828427/pirated">https://www.scribd.com/lists/238...
You can report infringement of your personal (or your employer& #39;s) intellectual property here: https://support.scribd.com/hc/en-us/articles/210129146-REPORT-COPYRIGHT-INFRINGEMENTS-AND-ABUSE-HERE">https://support.scribd.com/hc/en-us/...
Oh, also! The easiest way to look for books that are there illegally is to search a name/title/phrase, then click "documents" (that& #39;s user-uploaded), then filter by 100+ pages to eliminate book club guides & other totally legal documents.
"Books" are there legally via relationships with publishers, though I can& #39;t say whether or not the financials of it all truly benefit authors.
I will absolutely talk another day about how Scribd is also complete trash at metadata, cataloging, reader& #39;s advisory, etc. etc., because that& #39;s less about ethics and more about the cultural phenomenon of tech bros "reinventing" intellectual culture by de-intellectualizing it.
NB this list I posted is heavily weighted towards kidlit/YA because that& #39;s what I know, and therefore that& #39;s a lot of what I encountered naturally by searching for books I wanted to read/assign to my students, but I& #39;m certain there is a ton of shit I& #39;m missing.
I literally at one point just went down my Facebook friends list and typed in those names one at a time. And various other methods. But I swear I& #39;m going to stop now because I reeeeeally need to get work done and hold office hours.
What& #39;s funny is that I probably wouldn& #39;t be as loud about this if Scribd had hired me (or at least responded) for the job I applied for, because then I could Make Change From The Inside, so lolololol sucks to be them
*waves hopefully to @PublishersWkly @sljournal @HornBook @yalsa @wearealsc @ALALibrary @KirkusReviews @ALA_Booklist @PENamerica @scbwi *
