Amazon has a book piracy problem
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Amazon has a book piracy problem
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Re: Amazon has a book piracy problem
#2Amazon has a piracy/counterfeit problem. And has for a very long time. I have basically stopped buying there as much as possible.
My current trend is to use them as a search engine then got to the companies site. At this point you might as well shop alibaba as thats where half the crap is from anyway.
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#3If they got rid of marketplace sellers and actually got control over their supply chain then they might actually go up in people's opinion.
However Amazon and AWS isn't about doing a good job, it's about doing a mediocre job and making everyone happy though apologies.
And that's why I'm still using them. They are a good balance.
Re: Amazon has a book piracy problem
#4Amazon has a piracy/counterfeit problem. And has for a very long time. I have basically stopped buying there as much as possible. My current trend is to use them as a search engine then got to the companies site. At this point you might as well shop alibaba as thats where half the crap is from anyway.
With books, Amazon has become the opposite of a search engine for me. I have to use external resources to actually find the right titles, to enter them 1:1 into Amazon search to get to the books. Context based discovery has become next to impossible (which I used it before a lot for). Something must have changed in their indexing algorithm a while ago. Also many results are flooded with garbage, like some ridiculous "notebooks" with similar titles to the searched book or product name.
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#5I'm surprised there aren't class action lawsuits targeting the FAANGs for this kind of thing
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#6Amazon makes money from every pirated book sold. Maybe book publishers lack the clout of the music publishers?
Re: Amazon has a book piracy problem
#7Amazon has a piracy/counterfeit problem. And has for a very long time. I have basically stopped buying there as much as possible. My current trend is to use them as a search engine then got to the companies site. At this point you might as well shop alibaba as thats where half the crap is from anyway.
I'm the same way. I used to say "at least you can rely on books bought on Amazon" but now you can't even say that much. Alibris or eBay are more reliable online retailers for books nowadays.
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#8Amazon has shown time and time again that they don't care. They don't care about fake reviews, counterfeit products, cheap Chinese crap, their workforce, or anything really as long as customers keep on buying.
Re: Amazon has a book piracy problem
#9This is just one example of a broader problem with Amazon. It has become essentially a vehicle for automated salesbots to push anonymously manufactured goods of all kinds---not just books---to as many buyers as possible, drowning out storefronts for identifiable manufacturers and retailers who might have legal right via copyright or licensing to sell similar, often higher-quality versions.
Re: Amazon has a book piracy problem
#10If they got rid of marketplace sellers and actually got control over their supply chain then they might actually go up in people's opinion. However Amazon and AWS isn't about doing a good job, it's about doing a mediocre job and making everyone happy though apologies. And that's why I'm still using them. They are a good balance.
What does aws have to do with this article, piracy, or the retail side of Amazon