Have you written a book?

I have ghostwritten a couple of ebooks...does that count? Big tasks!

Yes, I wrote a book in 2000 and copyrighted and registered with the U.S. copyright office. It is true it's automatically copyrighted. But to give it teeth you should register it with the U.S. copyright office. My question is, how did the site get her book? Did they buy the book from someone? Are they used books they are giving away? If they bought the book and are giving it away, there is nothing you can do about it whether it is registered with the U.S. copyright office or not. If someone else bought the books and gave them to the site, there is nothing you can do about it. There is no law stopping someone from giving away books that they bought. Just because they are giving away the books doesn't mean they weren't bought by someone. The only way I can think of them getting the book without someone paying for it is if your wife had someone unscrupulous print it or her contract stated they can give away a certain number of books. Some will give away books as a promotion. This site may have gotten there hands on these books. It may even turn out to be a plus for your wife by getting a small number of her books out and letting word of mouth promote it.

So are you saying that, although Anne's book is copyrighted, it isn't registered with the copyright office? And thanks for the information too. :)

You must be very proud of your wife. She is great. I don't have any skills to be an author. I prefer reading book than writing books. Lol.

You must be so proud of her. I wrote a short story once but did not go through a publisher. I self-published it and it was really cute but did not sell much.

To protect your work is very important. Here in Spain, apart from the copyright, the authors first go to the Intellectual Property Registration to inscribe the own written book. There, they also deal for you (for the author) the copyright.

I'd be interested to know what she did about that. I occasionally go onto our online auction site to see if any of my books are being sold secondhand :-)

Yes, I have written some books. Will have to check out the site to see what else is going on.

Thank you for the heads up James, I know that to protect your work you need to register it and not only with the US copyright office if you want to be protected worldwide, you have more steps to do.

I believe my daughter would have dealt with this. I have three books on Amazon. Congrats to your wife!

Your wife is wounderful, so take it as a compliment!

I've never written a book and probably never will, but it's good advice.

Wow!! This is a great job. I only think about writing but have not generated anything worth reading. Lol

I've published a few books and so far I haven't seen them on any pirating sites, but I have heard it happened to other authors.

lovely that she was able to complete and publish her father's story - hope she is able to get some money back from the free downloading

I wonder what would happen if someone "stole" one of my songs. I've never formally Copyrighted them. Did you hear the one that Vanny posted? I've never written a book, but I have a few boring academic publications out there, including one in a book called Sociological Studies of Children and Youth. Woo hoo! Did your wife write the one about her grandfather with her dad? Or complete and edit the book after his passing?

Interesting