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That may be the case but that's not what she said, she made it sound like he did something illegal and threatened to close his account. I have a feeling that A
by naner 14y ago
That may be the case but that's not what she said, she made it sound like he did something illegal and threatened to close his account.
I have a feeling that Amazon may actually dislike people selling crowdsourced material as assembled books, not necessarily copyleft books (such as Dive into Python).
- fastball 14y agoMore books for sale means more money. Amazon likes more money. I can think of no reason Amazon would be against selling crowdsourced books (besides quality control). If you have ideas, please enlighten us.
- SageRaven 14y agoIf they really cared about quality control, then they'd have better proofing of kindle content based on older, scanned texts.
- naner 14y agoI can think of no reason Amazon would be against selling crowdsourced books (besides quality control). You can think of no reason besides that one reason you gave? ;) According to the email he received, Amazon doesn't allow you you publish material you do not own the copyright to. So this effectively kills crowdsourced material unless you have a copyright assignment clause.
- fastball 14y agoRight, but you made it sound like a problem. It seemed like you were disagreeing with ig1, rather than rephrasing his exact thoughts.
- naner 14y agoI did technically disagree. Crowdsourced and copyleft aren't the same thing. I gave the example of Dive into Python as a copyleft publication that is not crowdsourced and where the copyright is held by one person (or publishing company).