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Does Amazon have an incentive to fix this? This is the equivalent of Facebook or Twitter removing all bots. In this case they are much more directly seeing reve
by yalogin 4y ago
Does Amazon have an incentive to fix this? This is the equivalent of Facebook or Twitter removing all bots. In this case they are much more directly seeing revenue. The only people losing are the authors and manufacturers of the original product. I see consumers don’t care and in fact actively buy the lower priced item and are happy about it. If they were to fix it, they need a huge operation to create a system to identify, vet, enforce originality across every single product on their platform. It’s almost impossible at amazon’s scale. They will never do anything about it. May be this is a business opportunity for a new company to come in and provide as Amazon will surely not be able to replicate overnight.
- __mharrison__ 4y agoFor books, especially self-published books, this is not a hard problem. Google and Amazon could solve this sort of piracy in a week of they wanted to...