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Originally Posted by carld
And how exactly are they going to check every book uploaded? They can't just check the title and author. The whole book has to be checked for copyright material, and what are you going to check it against? There's no master database containing the text of every book currently under copyright, and that's what would be required to actually check uploads for copyright violations.
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That's why selling content that comes from unknown/unverified sources is a bad idea.
That's the real problem here. If Amazon wants to get into the business of letting anybody upload products to them that they'll put up for sale, then they need to verify that they can legally sell each one. Yes, that's going to be a huge amount of work. That's why other retailers don't allow it. It's Amazon's choice to get into that business, but there are going to be some huge costs involved with verifying all of the content.