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Re:Amazon has made a change to the way it sells books, which... by KevinEldon on Saturday May 20, 2017 @07:50AM (#14381982)
Do you have any evidence of this kind of copyright violation for books on Amazon? I can imagine it does happen, but if it happens at any sort of significant scale (say more than e-book piracy) the publishers or the author of this publisher-friendly article would have mentioned it.
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Re:Amazon has made a change to the way it sells books, which... by ricardonunez on Saturday May 20, 2017 @08:29AM (#14382081)
The one story I know is this one https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/844030960333152256. There have been a lot more. There are a few different issues the article doesn't touch.
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Re:Amazon has made a change to the way it sells books, which... by ilamont on Saturday May 20, 2017 @01:14PM (#14383336)
It's been documented, but not at a large scale. Dave Burgess had his book Teach Like a Pirate owned (https://twitter.com/burgessdave/status/849039943561134080) and Bill Pollock says on this HN thread that five of his company's books were pirated.

If the experience of other manufacturers/brands are anything to go by (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13927641), I fear more and more pirates will get into books now that it's possible for them to own the buy box. It might not be a huge problem now, but I predict it's only a matter of time before it becomes one.

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Re:Amazon has made a change to the way it sells books, which... by dilemma on Saturday May 20, 2017 @08:20AM (#14382061)
I don't, but the article posits that there are thousands of copies of a title sold that don't come from a publisher, so it is implied. They also mention promotional copies but that is no large quantity.
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Re:Amazon has made a change to the way it sells books, which... by billpollock on Saturday May 20, 2017 @01:25PM (#14383390)
at least 1500 copies in our case.
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Re:Amazon has made a change to the way it sells books, which... by tolien on Saturday May 20, 2017 @08:21AM (#14382064)
Here: http://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/amazon-counterfeits-no-starch....
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Re:Amazon has made a change to the way it sells books, which... by billpollock on Saturday May 20, 2017 @12:55PM (#14383228)
Yes.
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