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Originally Posted by netseeker
Amazon could also try to make an agreement about the sold copies with the current copyright holder and compensate him for the "lost sales". Then those copies would be as legal as when the customers had bought them directly from the current copyright holder.
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Not possible in the vast majority of cases.
Say I am the copyright holder of a work. If that work is covered by a current publishing contract, the contract gives an *exclusive right* to the publisher to sell the work. The rights cannot be granted an additional time to another company, which is what you're proposing Amazon should do.
Amazon has no reason to become a publisher. They are a distributor, plain and simple.