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Re:Arch Linux Handbook for Kindle rejected by Amazon by fastball on Sunday September 09, 2012 @04:59PM (#4496967)
More books for sale means more money. Amazon likes more money.

I can think of no reason Amazon would be against selling crowdsourced books (besides quality control). If you have ideas, please enlighten us.

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Re:Arch Linux Handbook for Kindle rejected by Amazon by naner on Monday September 10, 2012 @12:00PM (#4500457)
I can think of no reason Amazon would be against selling crowdsourced books (besides quality control).

You can think of no reason besides that one reason you gave? ;)

According to the email he received, Amazon doesn't allow you you publish material you do not own the copyright to. So this effectively kills crowdsourced material unless you have a copyright assignment clause.

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Re:Arch Linux Handbook for Kindle rejected by Amazon by fastball on Monday September 10, 2012 @04:03PM (#4501911)
Right, but you made it sound like a problem. It seemed like you were disagreeing with ig1, rather than rephrasing his exact thoughts.
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Re:Arch Linux Handbook for Kindle rejected by Amazon by naner on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @07:06AM (#4504750)
I did technically disagree. Crowdsourced and copyleft aren't the same thing. I gave the example of Dive into Python as a copyleft publication that is not crowdsourced and where the copyright is held by one person (or publishing company).
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Re:Arch Linux Handbook for Kindle rejected by Amazon by SageRaven on Sunday September 09, 2012 @05:52PM (#4497135)
If they really cared about quality control, then they'd have better proofing of kindle content based on older, scanned texts.
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