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Originally Posted by ghostwheel
Copyright violations did not start with e-books. Especially not of the sort we have here: someone sells a book that they have no permission from the copyright owner from.
One example is ACE books and the lord of the rings. (Though in this case - it is true that ACE didn't have permission from the copyright owner, but they claimed they didn't need it). I'm sure there are plenty others.
Is there any case where the books were recalled from the buyers? I have never heard of something like that. I think the usual procedure is that one calculates how many times the book was sold and the violator has to pay the copyright holder for the pleasure.
What happened here? Did amazon or the wrongful publisher pay the copyright holder anything? Was a criminal/civil case opened? Is it simply that amazon figured that stealing the books back from the owners for $0.99 per copy was cheaper than paying the copyright holder?
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Actually, Fictionwise "recalled" books. But they never deleted the books. You just can't download them anymore from your library (and they adviced you to make extra copies...). Where they could, they replaced your copy with another copy they were allowed to sell.
I think that last is something Amazon should have done. I bet they have another copy of 1984 somewhere that they are allowed to sell...