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Originally Posted by nyrath
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I ran into that story on another forum. It's essentially bottom-feeders putting up public domain books for sale through Amazon's self-publishing thingie (I'm pretty sure about this but not 100% - couldn't figure out a way to see how some of these books are published for the few examples I found - it said "Amazon digital services" for publisher
).
Same thing's happening to B&N's pubIT (I'm on firmer ground there). Several regular B&N customers are
not happy about that
- they say (loudly on the forum) that it clutters up their new release browsing on the nook and on the site and also go on to demand that there be a filter to weed out all pubIT books (since they apparently overwhelm any attempts at getting reasonably long lists to browse through). Plus, as you can imagine, the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty pathetic in the self-published works (not because indie authors are incompetent - far from it - but because of the bottom-feeders I alluded to before).
Mind you, that doesn't mean either of them are in the clear over this. They are ethically bound to filter out stuff like this before allowing someone to self-publish.
Edit: Just saw another thread on this exact story -
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=109414