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I'm also a Manning author and this also happened to me a couple years ago. Amazon was allowing a counterfeit Kindle edition of Classic Computer Science Problems

I'm also a Manning author and this also happened to me a couple years ago. Amazon was allowing a counterfeit Kindle edition of Classic Computer Science Problems in Python to pose as legitimate on my own book's page! Only emailing Jeff got a solution. Manning seemed powerless to solve the problem themselves. I still have some bad reviews as a result of that counterfeit Kindle edition that plague my book page. Totally unfair! Here's my original Tweet thread about it: https://twitter.com/davekopec/status/1302578592552022018 https://twitter.com/davekopec/status/1302578592552022018 Here's the Hacker News discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24399301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24399301

clumsysmurf 4y ago
I can understand how physical copies of counterfeit books get co-mingled with legit inventory, whether they are printed from PDF or "re-covered" from destroyed copies ... but how does one simply upload a counterfeit Kindle edition at all?
- __mharrison__ 4y ago
  One simply uploads it to Amazon. They (Amazon) don't vet it and the pirate gets to ride on your coattails. All of this pirating would be easy to prevent, but one wonders why they even enable this?
copperx 4y ago
What's Jeff's email? I need to right a few wrongs.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago
  jeff@amazon.com
  - JonSchneider 4y ago
    Jeff has moved on, though.
thaumasiotes 4y ago
> Amazon was allowing a counterfeit Kindle edition of Classic Computer Science Problems in Python to pose as legitimate on my own book's page! Amazon tries to "unify" pages for products that are "the same", which ends up being a disaster. A while ago I found that the page for Husain Haddawy's translation of the Arabian Nights was linked to a "Kindle version" of an entirely different work (also an edition of the "Arabian Nights", but there's a lot of room for variation in e.g. what's included, to say nothing of the translator). After some very annoying searching, I discovered that this was true even though Amazon was already selling a Kindle version of the Husain Haddawy translation. Getting this fixed didn't require emailing Jeff Bezos - a conversation with frontline customer support on the website did the job. But the same problem exists all over Amazon. Try following the link to the "Kindle version" of any edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and you will discover a random, unrelated edition. If you follow the link back to a physical copy, you'll find a third edition. Read the reviews for any movie or TV show and you will see that they combine reviews of every DVD, Blu-ray, streaming, and probably VHS release.

clumsysmurf 4y ago

I can understand how physical copies of counterfeit books get co-mingled with legit inventory, whether they are printed from PDF or "re-covered" from destroyed copies ... but how does one simply upload a counterfeit Kindle edition at all?

__mharrison__ 4y ago
One simply uploads it to Amazon. They (Amazon) don't vet it and the pirate gets to ride on your coattails. All of this pirating would be easy to prevent, but one wonders why they even enable this?

copperx 4y ago

What's Jeff's email? I need to right a few wrongs.

iLoveOncall 4y ago
jeff@amazon.com
- JonSchneider 4y ago
  Jeff has moved on, though.

thaumasiotes 4y ago

> Amazon was allowing a counterfeit Kindle edition of Classic Computer Science Problems in Python to pose as legitimate on my own book's page! Amazon tries to "unify" pages for products that are "the same", which ends up being a disaster. A while ago I found that the page for Husain Haddawy's translation of the Arabian Nights was linked to a "Kindle version" of an entirely different work (also an edition of the "Arabian Nights", but there's a lot of room for variation in e.g. what's included, to say nothing of the translator). After some very annoying searching, I discovered that this was true even though Amazon was already selling a Kindle version of the Husain Haddawy translation. Getting this fixed didn't require emailing Jeff Bezos - a conversation with frontline customer support on the website did the job. But the same problem exists all over Amazon. Try following the link to the "Kindle version" of any edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and you will discover a random, unrelated edition. If you follow the link back to a physical copy, you'll find a third edition. Read the reviews for any movie or TV show and you will see that they combine reviews of every DVD, Blu-ray, streaming, and probably VHS release.