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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Why does Amazon penalize authors who are at no fault for having their books pirated?
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Because they have violated their exclusivity agreement with Amazon.
Evidently authors are eager to have their books pirated so they can earn no income from them. One author made a comment that Amazon with it's billions of dollars can't stop ebook piracy but they expect authors to be able to do so. That author has a company that looks for pirated copies of her books and sends the cease and desist notices for the little good they do.
For starter reads on the issue, see
Amazon Punishes Authors Whose Work Is Pirated, Due to Aggressive Exclusivity Clause or
Amazon Can Penalize Authors Because Of Ebook Piracy.
One quote from the second article is:
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While it has millions of ebooks in its Kindle store, the number is of no consequence.
Its bots can scan millions upon millions of locations every day in the hunt for duplicated ebooks.
All its bots need to find is the same title, a similar book description and cover, and the same text in the first 300 to 500 words to locate a match.
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