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"It affects nearly all high sale volume technical books on Amazon. If you've bought a technical book on Amazon recently there's a >50% chance it's a fake." If
by stewbrew 4y ago
"It affects nearly all high sale volume technical books on Amazon. If you've bought a technical book on Amazon recently there's a >50% chance it's a fake."
If it were a high sales book, Amazon would probably have it in stock and they would sell it themselves. If not ... Things can be frustrating.
- psyklic 4y agoIf it's high sales then it's counterfeited even more. The counterfeits are sold for 20-40% less than Amazon's (presumably real) stock, and so Amazon lists the counterfeits as the only Buy Now option.
- stewbrew 4y agoThis doesn't work in countries with book price fixing. So the problem rather is online distribution of counterfeited books in countries that, for whatever reason, abhor government intervention in the book market. In the US, this is a political problem that stems from political decisions. It's not the problem of a single company. (I'm definitely not defending Amazon.) The main question here is are these political decisions in favor of book authors?
- psyklic 4y agoOr as others mentioned, Amazon could easily stop this by not allowing untrusted third parties list books as New.