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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The only places I've seen illegal eBooks being sold is from Amazon, Smashwords, and any shop where they sell eBooks from Smashwords.
Because Amazon and Smashwords allow self-published eBooks to be uploaded and sold, some people do this with eBooks they don't have the rights to.
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Yes, exactly. I was stung buying 3 Kindle books from Amazon some years ago. The Harper Hall trilogy by Anne McCaffrey.
I never read the reviews, as I was familiar with the books and simply wanted to re-read them. I didn't take a "look inside" as it never occurred to me that Amazon wouldn't have some kind of vetting procedure so that illegal copies weren't uploaded.
And while Amazon has a return policy, I didn't actually get around to reading them until my Kindle Oasis 2 arrived, about a year after the purchase.
As to how I'm quite certain they are pirate copies?
Well, how often do you see a legit, still under copyright ebook that has NO COPYRIGHT STATEMENT and NO PUBLISHER INFO within? That and all three books had an absolutely obscene amount of typos, which is why I was looking for the publisher information, as I wanted to complain!
It still bugs me to this day that I put money in the hands of a book pirate!