The book piracy problem has fascinated us going back to our tracking of the Harry Potter spoiler two years ago.   Today, we’re proud to announce the launch of the Attributor book tracking service that takes advantage of our industry-leading, web-wide crawling capabilities and new technology to detect .pdf and other file formats online.

Over the past several months, we’ve spoken to folks at many book publishers including one whose official title was “Book Detective”.  As we investigated the problem, we were amazed at the ease in which anyone can obtain a full copy of their favorite best seller . . . for free.   Today’s agreement with Hachette Book Group offers all book detectives some help; specifically,  best-of-breed content monitoring technology to increase the effectiveness of your anti-piracy efforts while dramatically reducing the resources required.