> So many new books on Amazon are bad quality reprints. Is it possible that what you'd bought was a counterfeit? Amazon apparently has a problem with knock-off

> So many new books on Amazon are bad quality reprints. Is it possible that what you'd bought was a counterfeit? Amazon apparently has a problem with knock-offs being commingled with their publisher-supplied stock. Here's the founder of No Starch Press tweeting about Amazon selling counterfeit copies of Python For Kids. The diagrams were fuzzy & pixelated (and black and white), and the paper quality was significantly inferior: https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/844030960333152256 https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/844030960333152256 There was an HN discussion about it 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546