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Take a look at: https://www.mobipocket.com/ebookbase...e/pub_info.asp You can sign up as a publisher and see for yourself if you choose not to accept my word. They way it actually works is that you upload your books using the "eBookBase" system at Mobipocket. For each book, you can choose which retailers the book will get distributed to. "Amazon.com" is one of those retailers. The first time you do this, Amazon then send you some forms to fill in and fax back to them, which are all about US tax payments, etc. Once you fill those in and fax them back to Amazon, your books then appear in the Kindle eBook store. I've attached a screen shot showing you what the retailer selection page looks like. Amazon's entry is lower down the list. Last edited by HarryT; 07-21-2009 at 02:00 PM. Reason: Attached screenshot |
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Of course you can. You can upload a Harry Potter book with your name and a different title on it. It's still just as much a copyright violation. If I collect short stories from the net and sell them as a collection under my name and title it's still a copyright violation, and there's no way to check that before the fact without checking every single thing that gets uploaded form everyone.
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If you think what Amazon did is perfectly OK, then you're also saying that all P2P sharing should be OK as long as people just take a file down when the copyright owner asks them to. No harm, no foul. |
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Otherwise you're gambling that ALL copyright violations will be handled with a DMCA takedown instead of a lawsuit. |
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What you claimed and I quoted was that they uploaded for another region like Australia and that upload automatically was sent to Amazon. I really do not believe it work that way.
In a later posting you said you that they made a mistake and selected all regions which is another claim then the one I quoted. |
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Amazon directly charges and profits from people downloading the content. Amazon sells the content. Amazon is not "blind" to the content, it's not as if it's encrypted content they have no way to look into. So Amazon is quite responsible for distributing copyrighted material without permission.
Sure, the uploader is responsible too, but (in my view) less so, especially if he/she uploads content that is PD where he/she lives and just overlooks that he/she is implicitly giving permission to Amazon for selling it in the US (something which, anyway, he/she has no right to do, so Amazon should not just trust it). And it can be argued that the copyright infringement on Amazon's part was unintentional and good-willing, but it's still there. |
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Yes, that is a reasonable way for it to work. I realize now that the text I commented on can be read in two ways. I probably read it in a different way then you intended it to be read.
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