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Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by pomian on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:41PM (#30195714)
Strange to say, I ordered a classic paperback science fiction book from Amazon. Shopping image was of a standard pocket book, used. (Imagine del Ray publishing from the 70's.) What arrived, was a Xerox? copied book with a water mark, on American standard 81/2 x11" paper. It was almost unreadable because of water mark. It wasn't a paper back. It wasn't original publisher format in any way. This has happened twice now, in completely different genres. I am dubious of buying any books from Amazon now. Powell's Books instead.
Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by jacquesm on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:22AM (#30205860)
Clearly a seller that was shipping counterfeit books and knowingly committing a copyright violation. Technically Amazon as the 'merchant of record' is liable for this in a contributory way.