Thread: Amazon's Apology for the Orwell Incident
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Old 09-05-2009, 06:35 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by John Bailey View Post
A new wrinkle appears.

According the legitimate and established e-book publisher in question, they marked the books as limited to Australia as the copyright period there is different to the US, so both books are in fact Public domain.... In Australia. This was on the Mobileread web site, where they submitted the books for publication.

And 100% legal for them to sell. Amazon's mobi scraper ignored this limitation and took the books anyway. Perhaps nobody bothered to program this field in the scraper program. So the "third party" that uploaded the books in question may in fact have been Mobileread... Who are owned by Amazon, or Amazon themselves.

At the very least, the potential damage to the publisher's reputation could be argued to be quite serious. not to mention loss of revenue on 2000 e-books for how ever long the exclusion remains.

Could get very interesting to watch. Provided you are not working for Amazon.

It isn't over yet.
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