Clampdown
Authors & publishers

Your book is free somewhere. Get it removed.

Z-Library, Libgen, Anna's Archive, and a long tail of PDF dumps carry copies of most published books. Clampdown finds yours and works through the removals title by title.

The threats

How books gets taken

Shadow libraries

Z-Library, Libgen, and Anna's Archive index books at scale. A single upload propagates across mirrors within days.

PDF and EPUB dumps

Stripped files land on file hosts, document-sharing sites, and 'free ebook' blogs that rank for your title on Google.

Amazon knockoffs

Reuploaded or lightly reworded copies get listed as new books, sometimes under a near-miss author name.

Audiobook rips

Narrated editions get ripped to MP3 and posted to torrent indexes and Telegram channels alongside the ebook.

Where it spreads

The surfaces we watch for books, and the ones copies usually pass through on the way to a search result.

  • Z-Library
  • Libgen
  • Anna's Archive
  • Scribd & document sites
  • File hosts
  • Telegram book channels
  • Torrent indexes
  • Amazon KDP listings
  • Free-ebook SEO blogs
  • Goodreads spam links
How we protect it

What Clampdown does about it

The parts of the loop that matter most for this medium.

  1. 01

    Title-level tracking

    Every edition and format gets its own record, so you can see which ones leak and where they keep coming back.

  2. 02

    Search delisting first

    The copies that cost you sales are the ones ranking above your store. Those get delisted from Google and Bing alongside the host notice.

  3. 03

    Knockoff reporting

    Fake listings on retail platforms are reported through their copyright and brand channels with the evidence attached.

  4. 04

    Launch-week cover

    Monitoring tightens around a release, when a leak does the most damage to first-week rankings.

Frequently asked questions

Can you actually get books off Z-Library or Libgen?
Some shadow libraries honor removal requests and some ignore them. We file where filing works and concentrate on the mirrors, hosts, and search results that carry the traffic.
Do you handle a whole backlist?
Yes. Titles are monitored as a catalog rather than one at a time, and findings are grouped by title, edition, and format.
What about audiobooks?
Audio rips are monitored alongside the ebook and print editions. They usually surface on torrent indexes and Telegram rather than shadow libraries.

Find the copies of your books that are already out there.

Give us a title and a store link. We will come back with what we find, before you commit to anything.