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0 pointsjcynix3y ago0 comments

> as far as I know the book is still on Amazon

I would have expected that. Amazon neither has the staff with expertise to investigate claims nor much interest in removing products that earn them a nice share. Knowledge is fungible nowadays, and in these cases of "fake books" its volatile too.

It's the virtual gold rush on the Internet and companies which supply resources (ebook platforms, search engines, but hardware for crypto mining like graphics cards etc too) to those "miners" profit from what's going on.

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hk__23y ago· 1 in thread

> I would have expected that. Amazon neither has the staff with expertise to investigate claims nor much interest in removing products that earn them a nice share

If the book attributes its content to Wikipedia, it’s perfectly legal. The issue then becomes "should Amazon remove low-quality products from their website?" (and the underlying issue is "what does 'low-quality' mean?"), and the response is no because they want to act as a platform.

jcynixOP3y ago

> If the book attributes its content to Wikipedia, it’s perfectly legal.

Sure, but I remember seeing books which didn't attribute their source. I only noted the "similarity" while searching for info on certain topics. Sorry, I didn't document them, because I just thought, ok, the next scam.

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