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Old 06-02-2025, 02:06 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats View Post
I think it was an illegal publisher that led to the "Amazon yanking 1984 off Kindles' fiasco, which maligned ebooks with uninformed people.
I'm not sure if they learned the right lesson from that. I believe now, the only difference is that the books don't get yanked from people's libraries if they already purchased it. The customer still gets to keep their bootleg copy, Amazon still gets their cut from the sale.

...which means Amazon is actually incentivized to keep bootleg ebooks on the store as long as they can so that they maximize their profit from the illegal sales, until the rightful Publisher sends them a take-down notice.

Which is why I expect that the continued obscuring of the Publisher might be intentional.
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