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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Amazon most surely does. It relies on the copyright holder to complain and get the listed books removed. It does no pre-publication checks on books posted through KDP, except that the person posting it must check a box to tell Amazon that they have the right to publish it.
Numerous unauthorised editions of copyrighted books have appeared for sale at Amazon UK (and other Amazon stores) posted using KDP by the clueless or the crooked. Mostly, to be fair, the former.
The authorised UK edition of Whose Body? is here, currently £1.99. |
I agree in general, but since some authors have had problems when, eg, two different collections contained the same story, I think Amazon now have some automated checks in place.
The reviews of this edition say it's annotated, maybe telling readers in text who invented the telephone messes with the text comparison.
For corroboration of the general point, I see three editions of "The Secret Adversary" in the UK Kindle store (PD in USA only)
https://www.amazon.com/Agatha-Christ...dp/B07B8NTTVG/
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Advers...dp/B077LCS9CW/
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Advers...dp/B078YWNV6P/