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Originally Posted by HarryT
Are you suggesting that every copy of "1984" sold in a US bookstore is also pirated? The fact that a book is still in copyright does not mean publishers can't publish it.
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No, I'm not making that suggestion. Of course publishers can purchase the rights to publish any book they choose. However, if I see a guy running around Times Square selling Rolex watches for $100 then I might just get suspicious. Likewise, when I see easily available ebooks on Amazon with poor quality covers selling for $1 to $3 then I also get suspicious.
Books with poor quality covers in general make me suspicious, but of course I have no way of knowing which books on Amazon are completely legitimate. For that matter, I can't know which items sold by anybody are legitimate, but using price and packaging as an indicator to raise suspicion doesn't seem unreasonable.