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Originally Posted by braver
This thread is stupid. Jeff Bezos personally apologized for a technical action taken without his knowledge by mistake (by lower-level folks without thinking things through), and now the enetrprising student had made $150K on his notes.
The fact is that Kindle leads the market, and provides a testbed for the novel cases like removal of content which proves illegal after it's admitted into the system. Same as Apple Store -- it's bound to had happened, and someone had to learn the lesson.
As to the unwarranted generalization, one can simply observe that it's your loss, and nothing to be really proud of or brag about, really.
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It's not 'stupid' - not if you think about it a minute.
You can't blame it on 'lower level people' unless you can show that they violated Amazon policy at the time they removed the books. What seems clear is that Amazon *had* no policy - they went ahead with the 'self-publishing' arm without any proper controls in place. No way to screen uploads for infringement *before* they were posted, no clear policy for dealing with anything that might slip through their (seemingly non-existent) controls.
Either Amazon was arrogant or stupid or both. You don't start a venture like this unless you have some idea how to deal with the contingencies and legalities. The whole system was completely open to abuse, and Amazon dealt with that abuse in the most heavy-handed and invasive way.