Forum: Story Discussion and Feedback

I was just notified by an SOL member that my story "The Preacher's Wife" is being sold on Amazon under the title "Unfaithful Wife" by Simon Gerrard.

My heart sank when I saw that it has one review which is a 1-star. But then I read the review and it was a warning not to buy it because it's available for free on SOL.

I'm in the place where I report the copyright violation and saw this on the top:

If you are a rights owner with a registered trademark, you may be eligible to enroll your brand in the Amazon Brand Registry. Amazon Brand Registry provides access to powerful tools including proprietary text and image search, predictive automation based on your reports of suspected intellectual property rights violations, and increased authority over product listings with your brand name. To learn more and start the enrollment process, click here.

I had just posted a warning about this guy (Simon Gerrard) on the Author Hangout, then saw this.. ;)

This guy had stolen one of my stories too and several of his other stories had very familiar descriptions, so everyone help try and see whom else has been stolen from. Sucks that we have to do this ourselves, since Amazon mostly doesn't care.

I tried reporting the copyright violation using the link on his novel's product page for that, but it didn't work. When I filled out the form it said the ASIN didn't exist. When I put in the URL I also got an error message.

So I went to the contact Amazon and sent it as an email.