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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Do you know if there's any legal difference between Amazon's book sales, and eBay's auction brokerage? I would think that "Amazon sells book & pays 30% of that sale to author" is different from "Person sells book & pays eBay 5% (or whatever) of the sale," but I'm not sure. eBay also seems to be profiting directly from the sale of copyright-infringing items.
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I believe they are legally different. As I mentioned in another post, you don't pay eBay directly when you win an auction. They are providing a service to the sellers by hosting the auctions, but the payment goes directly to the individual sellers. The service fee that eBay charges is indirect from the sale itself.
If Amazon just hosted the sale and you payed the individual eBook uploader directly, then I think it would be the same as the eBay scenario. That's not how Amazon does it though.
The main difference is "Amazon sells book" vs "Person sells book (on ebay)"... aka who receives payment for the sale.