Bums! ... Rascals! ... Scoundrels!
A blog called "The Digital Content Consortium" has been posting some of the Net's finest essays, articles and reviews.
The problem is: All these fine pieces are written by me, and used without any reference to me or to the EPW blog.
The Internet was made for sharing. I am happy to share most of my content. About my writings that are not marked "Copyright" you may reprint them in your electronic publication, but you must link back to me or acknowledge the source. Then everybody is happy.
But don't pretend that you are the authors of the writing that you've posted.
Readers reading the Digital Content Consortium: come on over to Epublishers Weekly, and get the information from the original source.
Take a look and see if they have reprinted this blog post that reveals their nefarious ways:
http://www.dcc15.com/
Every time I post to Epublishers Weekly, the DCC takes all my content, and formats things to look as if they are the authors. Of their 15 most recent posts, 7 were written by me and appeared first here at Epublishers Weekly.
Of course, there is no contact information, so what is to be done? ...
I've added a tagline to the bottom of all my posts.
And I've left a comment on their blog:
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Most esteemed gentlemen,
I write to inform you that your blog, the Digital Content Consortium, is using the content from my blog, without permission from the author.
In fact, from your 15 most recent posts, 7 of these have been written by me.
Fortune will smile upon you if you remove my content before the rising of the next moon.
Your friend most sincerely,
Michael Pastore
Epublishers Weekly
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Michael Pastore
Epublishers Weekly
http://www.EpublishersWeekly.com
—Michael Pastore is a novelist, and the author and/or editor of a number of non-fiction books including The Zorba Anthology of Love Stories, and 50 Benefits of Ebooks: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Digital Reading Revolution. A new (2010) edition of 50 Benefits of Ebooks will be released by Zorba Press on September 8, 2010.