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Surely this should be an easy fix for them to be able to detect counterfeit books being created? If they are anything like other on demand self publishing platf
by djaychela 8y ago
Surely this should be an easy fix for them to be able to detect counterfeit books being created? If they are anything like other on demand self publishing platforms, you upload a pdf or similar file to create the book, and surely it's not beyond the wit of those at amazon to create an ml based system that would be able to detect similar files to those of legitimate books that they already carry and flag them to the legitimate publisher for manual review (if they can't be bothered to police it themselves as it appears)?
- sacheendra 8y agoIt is not that easy. They need a reliable system to do that. For what can go wrong, see all the hate Youtube's ContentID gets. But, identifying whole books should be simple enough.
- DennisP 8y agoIf the official book is available on Kindle, then it actually should be quite simple for them to use a locality-sensitive hash to find plagiarized uploads.
- blunte 8y agoI can guarantee that Amazon has the brainpower to solve this problem. They just don't have any real incentive to.
- consumer451 8y ago3rd person, nearly useless anecdote: I have heard around Seattle that this is “the biggest issue we have” in the minds of Amazon employees.
- ghaff 8y agoFor books on Kindle, Amazon at least used to do some degree of checking. I published a book five or six years ago that was based in part on blog posts that I had previously published in a number of different places. They flagged my book and I had to send them a number of links demonstrating that I was the original author.