How to report potential plagiarism of SK's book.

[J. Dean]

Greetings, all.

I'm new to the forum, and an avid King fanatic. Love his stuff. Some time when I have a better opportunity to interact more, I'll be happy to chat about it.

My reason for posting at the moment however, is a troubling one. While perusing the smashwords.com website, I came across this: Smashwords – Bill Hodge – a book by Stephen King

Basically it's MR. MERCEDES being plagiarized under a different name, and being issued by somebody using King's name, even though I'm sure it's not THE Mr. King himself.

I'm not quite sure how to relay this to Mr. King or his publishers, and I could be wrong about it (authors have done odd publicity things before), but this looks as if somebody simply cut and pasted the novel, changed the title, and slapped King's name on it. And as an author myself, I know how frustrated I would be if this were to happen under my nose.

Anyway, I hope Mr. King or somebody in authority sees this and checks it out.

And God willing, I'll be back to discuss other, more enjoyable matters in the future.

Thank you,
J. Dean

 

[Dana Jean]

Welcome and thank you for bringing this to our attention. I will tag Stephen's personal assistant to check it out!

Moderator

 

[king family fan]

 

[J. Dean]

Welcome and thank you for bringing this to our attention. I will tag Stephen's personal assistant to check it out!

Moderator

Much obliged and thank you. My apologies in advance if it's much ado about nothing.

 

[champ1966]

It's the Bill Hodges trilogy.

 

[J. Dean]

Right, and as there is no publisher listed as being affiliated with this particular digital copy and as I've never seen any of Mr. King's works on smashwords before, I just wanted to make sure that this wasn't somebody trying to steal his work.

 

[Spideyman]

Hi and welcome.

 

[skimom2]

New way to skirt copyright? A lot of the pirate sites have been shut down (not that new ones aren't popping up every day)--maybe flying under the radar at a legitimate site is a new angle. People are aggravating.

 

[GNTLGNT]

Much obliged and thank you. My apologies in advance if it's much ado about nothing.

...thanks and welcome Mr Shakespeare...

 

[kingricefan]

I think I hear a wood chipper starting up.......GO GET 'EM Marsha!!!

 

[Moderator]

Greetings, all.

I'm new to the forum, and an avid King fanatic. Love his stuff. Some time when I have a better opportunity to interact more, I'll be happy to chat about it.

My reason for posting at the moment however, is a troubling one. While perusing the smashwords.com website, I came across this: Smashwords – Bill Hodge – a book by Stephen King

Basically it's MR. MERCEDES being plagiarized under a different name, and being issued by somebody using King's name, even though I'm sure it's not THE Mr. King himself.

I'm not quite sure how to relay this to Mr. King or his publishers, and I could be wrong about it (authors have done odd publicity things before), but this looks as if somebody simply cut and pasted the novel, changed the title, and slapped King's name on it. And as an author myself, I know how frustrated I would be if this were to happen under my nose.

Anyway, I hope Mr. King or somebody in authority sees this and checks it out.

And God willing, I'll be back to discuss other, more enjoyable matters in the future.

Thank you,
J. Dean

Looks like somebody else already was successful in getting the story taken down, but thank you for letting us know. Had it still been posted, I would have forwarded the info to Stephen and his publisher's Legal Department.

 

[fljoe0]

Wood, Chipper and Associates, PA

 

[kingricefan]

Wood, Chipper and Associates, PA

Good one!

 

[Owenk]

Wood, Chipper and Associates, PA

Best lawyer's firm name ever is a firm I actually do work with quite frequently "Wright Hassall" based in Leamington Spa if you wish to google to verify their veracity!

 

[J. Dean]

Looks like somebody else already was successful in getting the story taken down, but thank you for letting us know. Had it still been posted, I would have forwarded the info to Stephen and his publisher's Legal Department.

Good to hear that. Happy to help.