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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I'm pretty sure most of those sideloaded books were not published by Amazon, only sold by them. The bookstore doesn't own the copyright of the books it sells.
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Bookstores do not deal in intellectual property, publishers (like Amazon) however do.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
What is the logic behind stating that using EBOK as the book type make it copyrighted content produced by Amazon?
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No publicly accessible tools create AZW files with that field set to any other value than PDOC. The part of the format that field resides is defined exclusively by Amazon.
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The copyright resides with the copyright owner. Allowing Amazon to publish your copyrighted material does not grant Amazon a copyright.
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Every publisher retains the copyright to its editions and has an exclusive right to distribute it.