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Originally Posted by griffonwing
Yes, I know that, but you miss the point. Amazon claimed it was a publisher reneging, and pulled the books from the library/kindles. Therefore, in the event that a publisher really DID renege, Amazon has already said/proven they'd still do it.
I don't think it was a misquote. I think it was Amazon not really knowing the full reasons themselves, or hiding the fact that it was another PD fiasco.
It was actually quoted, so I highly doubt you're going to "quote your rendition of a paraphrase". But I very well could be mistaken
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My understanding is that someone who contacted customer service about a deletion was told this by the customer service person. That is far from an official Amazon statement. I've seen plenty of misinformation come from CSRs over the years. Sometimes they speculate or have misunderstood the position themselves. If all they knew was the title was no longer available, then they may have filled in the gap themselves. Maybe they simply told the customer that it was no longer available from the publisher (not knowing why or if that was the reason for the deletion) and the customer incorrectly connected the dots and passed it on as fact.
What we do know is that Boyd Morrison's book has been pulled now that he's signed with Simon & Schuster and people who bought it when it was self-published still have access. I would take a real example rather than that game of telephone any day.