Is there a way to ask online booksellers to pull pirated editions of my books?
Eight of my books are available on Google Books as 100% online, downloadable, but no Creative Commons licensing. Now I am starting to see them show up in bookstores, in versions I didn't have printed. Amazon has a listing beginning with a statement that is both boilerplate and false:
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
And then it cites the actual publication date, 2008.
What's the best way to deal with these? Is this legal, given that I gave permission to download but not any Creative Commons license? Is there a piracy@amazon.com or other such email address one can request? And can I request that references to this paperback be redirected to my actual ebook or the hardcover I published on Lulu?
Is there any way to request that monies tendered to unauthorized printing be redirected to me?
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Under the "Product Details" heading, you have several links for updating book information and notifying Amazon of problems. That'd be a good way to try.
More directly, there's the Contact Us button on the help page. They should be able to direct you to the right place to alert them to the problem.
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