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Originally Posted by nekokami
That's an unfortunate example.
1 - The book isn't even out yet, so anything found on this search is going to be bogus, as in, a fake
2 - We know there won't be a legal ebook, so I can't think of a better way of shouting "go here for pirated copies!" Are you really looking to get shut down that fast?
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Dear neko,
thanks for the hint. I didn't know that Harry Potter isn't out yet, so that example was indeed very unfortunate (I changed it to a programming ebook for now, maybe you know a better title which is 'hot' right now but already available).
So, the search engine indeed searches through sites that contain not really legal content as well. The idea was to search any site related to ebooks and to provide ANY source where you could possibly find the desired title. We are right now in the progress of adding the big commercial stores as well as the smaller stores who are selling their ebooks totally legal.
Still you have the option to search only the commercial stores or free public domain books, simply click the
Commercial or
FreeBooks category after issuing the search, then shouldn't be any illegal titles in the results. Alternatively, you can directly add the "more:commercial" or "more:freebooks" to your search query, e.g.
"Harry Potter more:commercial"
Btw: what are the "big" ebook stores that should be added to the search engine, besides ebooks.com, ereader.com and fictionwise.com? I'd be glad to add them as well as the smaller stores, any suggestions welcome.
@hadrien: if you have some places/stores in mind where you usually find the titles you were looking for I'd be glad to immediately add them.
-chunka