http://www.techradar.com/news/portable- ... pam-967360

Hmm, kinda hard to see how you'd stop that...

Anything free service is inevitably abused, so you charge a nominal amount. Even if it's just £1 it would stop evil people releasing thousands of spam flavoured titles each.

However, the real solution would be to simply identify duplicate works. If someone tries to publish something that's over 90% the same as a previous work, then there's surely something to investigate...

I reckon it would need to be a fair bit more than that considering the potential profits for little work

I suspect that it would be very profitable considering the initial cost.

I find real paper books rarely suffer from this issue.

I get a lot of spam through my letterbox - it totally swamps the genuine mail, but it's rarely more than a few pages thick because of the costs of printing and distributing.

This is true, that [LIFTED] turns up uninvited, but it very rarely affects my books.