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Originally Posted by Manabi
And just to add: Kobo/etc. may decide to kill the seller's entire account if they get a couple of warnings about books with such warnings. Why? Because the odds are good the seller has probably done the same with at least one book that is still under copyright and Kobo wouldn't want to take that risk. Why bother when there's plenty of legit sellers for public domain works?
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This has been my experience with other retailers. If they find someone uploading someone else's book (people really do steal books, change the cover and name and try to sell them. Sometimes they don't even change the name or cover. Ilona Andrews was giving away a short story on her blog. Someone uploaded the story, cover and all--Ilona Andrews on it, but thought it was somehow okay to sell it on Amazon since Andrews chose not to sell it.)
But at any rate, once an account has been proven to be stealing work from some other source, those accounts are usually closed.