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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Of course, to do that, they'd have to tell customers "we don't actually check the legality of the sales conducted at our website--and when someone decides to cheat us, we pass that along & you get to deal with the fallout."
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To repeat a post I've made in another forum, Elfwreck,
how could Amazon do that?
It is easy enough to check whether or not a book is in the public domain. If you find that it is not, how can you find out whether a particular publisher has the legal right to distribute it? Demand that every publisher produce a copy of their contract with the copyright holder? It might be forged, even if they did!
Realistically, all that Amazon can do is require that a publisher state that they have the legal right to publish the books that they submit to Amazon - and that is precisely what they currently do.
What would
you recommend that they do?