Spam Clogging Amazon’s Kindle Self-publishing

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CommanderFrank

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It was bound to happen sooner or later; spammers have found a niche in Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing domain. Spammers are exploiting the system Amazon designed to help aspiring writers publish their own work. The spammers are using the system to plagiarize established author’s works and sell them as their own, raking in up to 70% of the sales.

“It’s getting to be a more widespread problem,” said Susan Daffron, president of Logical Expressions, a book and software publishing company. “Once a few spammers find a new outlet like this, hoards of them follow.”
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Isn't there some kind of authentication system to prevent this? I would think that some kind of measure would be in place for something like this.
 
Wouldn't this lead back to copyright infringement? Where there is a definite person to sue? Like the one getting the money?
 
Hoards? And this lady is in the book publishing business? Hordes, bitch.
 
This is a pretty common problem. It isn't just amazon who has it.
 
That should be theft/fraud and the low-lifes should be prosecuted and sent to jail.

This isn't spam. This is theft.
 
If people can put out 12 versions of a single book under different titles and authors, and at different prices, even if they sell just one or two books, they can make money. They win and the loser is Amazon.
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I guess in the long run Amazon is the loser if the quality of their system is lessened so much by the influx of all this junk, but as long as the spammers are making money, so is Amazon right? Since they get 65% to 20% of the profit off each sale
 
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