The world-wide popularity of the books in the Fluentzy series is so enormous that two illegal websites came to be hosted by book pirates outside India solely for selling the pirated versions of these books. For US dollars. At four times their published price.

A Russian Internet Service Provider... has closed two websites that were engaged in selling pirated versions of the fluent English self-study books... in the Fluentzy series by Prof. Kev Nair... charging an exorbitant premium... This incident is considered significant against the backdrop of a growing feeling among developing countries that items of intellectual property having unique value are being systematically smuggled out... for mindless commercial exploitation.
THE HINDU.

These two copyright-infringing websites... had been built solely for carrying on commercial piracy in the globally sought-after books in the Fluentzy series... The price quoted by the websites for each of Nairs books included a high premium and was four times the published price.
The New Indian Express.

Cyber piracy of Nairs titles in the internationally popular Fluentzy series
THE TIMES OF INDIA.

This is learnt to be the first time that the works of an Indian author writing in English have been targeted by cyber pirates.
THE HINDU.

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