Shadow (the_shadow_rising)
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Stories being Sold on Amazon
🕑 Added 2017-08-17 15:24:58 +0000 UTC (This is a copy of a post I have made in Lit's forums)
While I am aware that this is a common, even if wrong, practice (so please don't reply about how this is always done, that is not helpful or relevant to my purpose), I wanted to post about it for a couple of reasons.
I have recently received a message from a reader notifying me that two of my stories are being sold on Amazon. I looked into this and read the samples of the stories and except for a change in character names and a few sentences removed/words added to one, the books are identical to my stories: Sophie's Football Dinner and Sophie's Late Night Phonecall.
Both of these stories I wrote and published on Lit in 2005, and here they remain (and, I may add, both are not my best work - being early stories - and have errors; which the 'books' have not fixed but just copied over also).
These books can be found here:
I have taken this issue up with Amazon who are currently looking into the matter. As I noted on a previous post, I do not sell my stories and never will and intentionally only post them on Lit and want to keep them free.
So I am posting this for a few reasons - and as noted at the beginning, yes I know people stealing and selling stories is common, but that is neither the point here nor does it make it correct.
First, this 'author' has several books and given that the two books above are clearly identical to my two stories, I thought other authors would like to check to see if any of the other books were stories they had written with names changed and now being sold on Amazon.
Second, I wanted to flag this up so that readers can be aware that this had occurred and so that they do not buy these plagiarized stories what they can get for free in the original.
Third, I wanted a written online record about the matter under my account name.
Do I believe this will stop other people stealing stories? No. But I hope you can see the reasoning I have.
Thanks
