US-hosted ebook piracy website Oceanofpdf, which was giving away ebooks for free, has been shut down, reports theBookseller.
The site, which was active for seven months, had offered thousands of PDF and EPUB files of ebooks that could be downloaded for free, without any contracts with publishers or authors.
The site had angered UK-based authors Philip Pullman, Robin Stevens and Michelle Harrison. Pullman had sent a tweet to OceanofPDF, which said, ‘Please show me the agreement you have with my publishers, or my agent, or me, which allows you to give my books away free.’
