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My understanding is that Amazon depends on the "publishers" to maintain the kindle ebook store. This is pretty obvious given the vast amount of PD ebooks and porn that populates the various categories. Their attitude seems to be that as long as they have a signed letter from someone saying they are the ebook rights to a book, then that is all they need. It's only after they get a take down notice from the actual copyright holder that they will do something.
Who ever did this was actually kind of clever. iBook is legitimately putting out some of the Zelazny back catalog, two or three books a month. So, it's pretty easy to slide this in on the same day that the others come out and it looks legit. I suspect that there is enough of a delay in sending out the money that whoever did it won't get a dime. I have had some purchases pulled in the past and Amazon is pretty good about automatically giving you credit for books that are recalled.
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