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Originally Posted by DeusExMe
I was under the impression that anyone could place a book for sale on Amazon. So I figured that works such as this one were the result of some user and not Amazon itself, sort of like the Amazon marketplace for traditional purchases.
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I haven't look at the agreement... but I assume to do that, you must be the copyright holder of the book... or the work is under a copyright that allows you to do that, such as some of the creative commons licenses.
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Originally Posted by DeusExMe
Even so, I was further under the impression that Amazon or Sony or any of these sellers, simply downloaded from Project Gutenberg, formatted the fill, uploaded to their site, set a price and began to sell.
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I rather doubt it. I am pretty sure Amazon and Sony aren't publishing books. They are getting them from publishers. However, if they are doing the above it is perfectly legal as long as the book is in the public domain.
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Originally Posted by DeusExMe
they would take the time to get permission from the copyright holder...
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Copyright violation fines are per-incident. So, I doubt Sony or Amazon would risk those kinds of fines. However, they apparently do want to risk customer satisfaction.
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