[macournoyer]

Wow! OK. I'm the author of this book and I have no idea how it ended up there.

Here's the full product: http://copywritingforgeeks.com/

I don't mind that much if ppl just share the pdf, but asking 10$/month for MY product? WTH is that ...

[jerrya]

Thanks for responding, and providing the link to your work.

Okay, so it seems you want $99 for your book, which is fine, that's the price you set. It seems that someone uploaded it, presumably without your permission to scribd.

Scribd is now letting people download it with some form of monthly plan, or it turns out, for free if you upload a new file to them.

I uploaded a new file to them, it consists of the words, "I think your business plan is bogus" repeated many times.

So Scribd let me download your book, as a pdf, for free. (Opening the pdf, I see the 37 page presentation that the link of this thread points to.)

I don't know what's up with scribd, but I think they trash authors and misrepresent them when they host materials they didn't have permission for and on top of that try to trap people into monthly subscriptions and encourage people to upload random crap to them in order to get other stuff downloaded.

This is a business? A business that gets respect?

Seems crazy to me.

[mikevm]

I agree with you, and I would appreciate seeing less scribd links posted on HN. Surely people can find other places to post PDFs...

[smartial_arts]

I wonder if you can send them a takedown request?

Googling "Copywriting for geeks" shows scribd link as third result - it is quite likely to have a significant negative effect on your sales.