It sounds great…”Unlimited books and comics for your iPad!”
But what is MyPadMedia? Well, it is a site that promises the holy grail to readers: pay them $50 ONCE, and the floodgates open for unlimited books. What books? Well, you need to pay to play, my friends. There’s a testimonial that claims to have read “the whole twilight series”, but if you want more you need to pony up some serious dough, sight unseen.
From all appearances, it is a huge scam.
Red flag #1: no searchable listings. Pay up, but they won’t tell you what you’re paying for!
Red flag #2: no mention of what publishers are on board.
Red flag #3: no mention of any digital rights management software.
Red flag #4: the legal section of their site:
They aren’t actually providing the copyrighted material…
Product Purchase The purchase of a membership is not a license to upload or download copyrighted material. myPadMedia.com does not provide a direct database for downloading myPadMedia.com provides members with the necessary software, tutorials & unlimited technical support for their downloading needs.
Not only that, but they say here it’s a “monthly” fee…
myPadMedia makes no claim to ownership or other control or rights to any software recommended by myPadMedia or its agents. All software recommendations refer to either “Freeware” or software that is otherwise available without charge to individuals at large for specific purposes. None of the charges assessed to members of myPadMedia entitle You, as a Purchaser to any ownership, licensing rights or recourse with regard to use of the software other than those rights offered by the software owners or licensees. The fees and charges assessed by myPadMedia represent recurring monthly club membership fees which entitle You as a Purchaser to access to the location, evaluation, and or recommendation of those software products available from the web site and for the information provided to purchasers. myPadMedia Members may cancel at anytime during the course of their membership.
And they aren’t responsible when you get slammed for downloading pirated books…
Indemnification You agree to indemnify, hold harmless and release myPadMedia, its directors, officers, and employees, from and against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees, arising from or related to Your use of the Site and/or any content contained therein
Everything about this screams “This is a site that helps/facilitates searching the darknet/bittorrent for pirated ebooks.”
Verdict: HUGE SCAM. Stay away. And beware, they are spamming Twitter (Judie received a tweet about them today, which is how we found out about the site!)
Please share this and spread the word so no one falls victim to MyPadMedia! And if you have any info on them, email me or post a comment below!
RT @mark1786: You can access the newest iPad newspapers here for free : http://bit.ly/91lzeD?=mje0 << SCAM http://bit.ly/9lrqRe SCAM
thought I stumbled upon the holy grail of Ebooks but it's a SCAM.That's right, mypadmedia & ebooklibrary.me!SCAM! http://tinyurl.com/29clshy
@kcaise Not sounding good http://bit.ly/bkKNY5 http://bit.ly/bkKNY5
It’s a waste of money. They are selling you free stuff.
You want to piss away $50, be my guest. But a google search for “free and public domain ebooks” will get you the same results. For free
Have fun.
Oops … I just marked the comment as spam … looked like one of the ‘user recommendation’ names from their site …
I did, too! Just deleted it!! Lol
Judie Lipsett Stanford
http://www.geardiary.com
I had MyPadMedia for a while and then the site went down…I decided to do some research while maintainence was being done and I found not a whole lot…then one day I went back to the site to log in to my account and the site was gone!…then I did some research of my own and I found this site…thanks for clearing up the mypadmedia thing and I love your site.