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Originally Posted by gmw
Hmmm ... it's an interesting problem. If you look at the way we sign up to Smashwords and Amazon etc., there's not a lot of verification going on that I'm aware of. Although in those cases they are acting as distributors, the submitter still bears the full responsibility for what they submit.
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Amazon is notorious for their laissez-faire policy but Smashwords runs submissions through human verification for sure.
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Who cannot publish on Smashwords?
Do not attempt to publish public domain works, books that advocate hate speech/racism/homophobia, books that advocate illegal activities, or books in which the content includes word-for-word scrapes from Wikipedia or other public domain or content farm sources. Do not upload content or books that appear elsewhere on the Internet authored by people other than yourself or by other pen names. If we do a query on Google of a random text strings in your book (and yes, we do this to test the originality of your work), and we discover the same content under other author names, or associated with private label article (also called "Private Label Rights or PLR") or ebook licensing systems, your account will be deleted without warning and all earnings will be forfeited, per the Terms of Service. We have a zero tolerance policy for plagiarism, copyright infringement, PLR.
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