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Sean Carroll: AMZN selling pirated edition of the Biggest Ideas in the Universe
- consumer451 4y ago> Apologies to anyone having trouble with the Kindle version of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. Amazon is somehow selling a pirated edition for $9.99 (honest edition is $12.99) with the equations formatted badly. The real edition is fine. I am truly astonished at this level of ineptitude by Amazon. I would imagine many HN users could create a tool that would flag duplicated books uploaded maliciously. Am I entirely missing something?
- ncmncm 4y ago"Oops! My mistakes cheat authors but bring me more revenue. Win-win!"
- java-man 4y agoI think it's by design. The amount of commissions received by AMZN allowing to sell conterfeit producs far exceeds any penalties that might materialize as a result of it.
- consumer451 4y agoOk. So YouTube has an automated copyright strike system. Have publishers not lost enough money yet to demand such a system from Amazon? I found this: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200672400 https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200672400
- ctvo 4y ago> I am truly astonished at this level of ineptitude by Amazon. I would imagine many HN users could create a tool that would flag duplicated books uploaded maliciously. You should make it and sell it to Amazon and other online publishers. > Am I entirely missing something? Perhaps you're underestimating the difficulty of the tasks and the number of ways users can bypass / fool whatever mechanism you're using to fingerprint books.