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Originally Posted by braver
Ah, you caught me tempering down my initial reaction! 
I believe that everything is easy in hindsight. Knowing how Amazon operates from the inside, my hunch is that a midlevel manager saw the ebook with the wrong rights got into Kindle and panicked. |
Had this been the first incident, that might have been true. It wasn't. Amazon had previously done the same thing over Ayn Rand's and JK Rowling's works, only those didn't result in lawsuits--potentially because neither of those sets were available as legit ebooks. However, the legal principle is the same from the buyer's perspective: they bought a book; it was the seller's job to make sure they had the right to sell it.