Authors Without A Yacht (AWaY) discussion

Ebookee claims to direct searchers to where they can download ebooks for free.

Advertising revenue per month is claimed to be $60,000 on average.

https://flippa.com/2761490-ebookee-or...

Prime example of how advertising online incentivizes piracy and hurts content owners.

Ironically, there is a copyright notice. Ebookee owns the copyright of their auction details. This, however, is fair use.... I am reporting and commenting.

This is the basic description of what is being auctioned.

eBookee.org - Impressive Revenue, eBook Search Engine, Downloads, Huge Traffic
ebookee.org

I do believe that I have friends whose DMCAs have been allegedly ignored by this site.

The statistics on site visibility speak for themselves. The search engines "love" sites such as this.


Google PageRank 6
Alexa Rank 1,612
Links in Google 53
Inbound Links 814,475

This is the blurb, and quite frankly, it makes me sick. It seems to have been written by "Latonas" whatever they are. Brokers.

eBookee.org is the premier ebook search engine on the net. It allows users to locate and download ebooks to their computers in multiple formats. The site itself if designed in directory format for ease of navigation and to help visitors quickly locate the content they desire. The eBookee name has a strong brand presence as illustrated in the number of google searches it sees. This is a monster property with huge traffic, high revenue and strong profit. According to SEMRush the site is ranked for over 36,000 keywords in Google and has an impressive Alexa ranking of 1,612. This property is for serious bidders only. This is a real business for sale, with a long history of impressive financial performance.

A "real business" they say. There's food for thought.

For anyone interested in how many freetards visit such sites in search of "free" copies of ebooks, the Selling brokers claim the following.

Almost twenty million page views, of which one can assume that 15 million are regulars/return visitors.

Pageviews (3 month avg) 19,954,578
Uniques (3 month avg) 4,785,613

To be fair, a few visitors are going to be indignant authors.

The alleged profitability of the site is one of the most compelling reasons to take an interest in this auction.

One recent month, internet advertising paid almost $80,000 and the three month average revenue from advertising is $60,000.

One can assume that this is income on which no State or Treasury in the USA will see revenue.

To see the reported revenue for ebookee.org go here
https://flippa.com/2761490-ebookee-or...

These are some of the advertisers that the broker states are responsible for the profits this site enjoys.

Site is monetized through various affiliate and ad networks, including Friendlyduck, Firstload, Marketgrid, CPX Interactive, Infolinks, Revshared.net, Babylon, and Avazu. Expenses total $300 per month, consisting of the hosting cost.

More guff about the site, but it is noteworthy that American freetards now outrank downloaders from Europe or China.

We used to attribute piracy to persons who did not have access to books because of publishing restrictions or credit cards not working with their nations. Americans do not have that excuse.

eBookee.org receives a tremendous amount of traffic. Over the past three months, the site has seen 14,356,841 uniques resulting in 59,863,736 pageviews. 63.57% of traffic is new visitors while the remaining 36.43% is returning visitors. The traffic originates primarily from search, with a dominating 86.39% of the site's traffic. Traffic is primarily from United States, India, and Europe. Analytics attached.