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Let me tell you how to buy a kindle book for my kid’s Kindle that is connected via a child account in “Amazon Household” to my Amazon account. (This opening sentence already signals how the rest of this will go). A child’s account can’t buy books - you have to do it for them. 1. I open Amazon app on my iphone and find the book - “This app does not support purchasing of this content”. 2. I open Kindle app on my iphone…
Let me tell you how to buy a kindle book for my kid’s Kindle that is connected via a child account in “Amazon Household” to my Amazon account. (This opening sentence already signals how the rest of this will go). A child’s account can’t buy books - you have to do it for them. 1. I open Amazon app on my iphone and find the book - “This app does not support purchasing of this content”. 2. I open Kindle app on my iphone…
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The example book just has the same name. It should be defensible; you can write under any name you want. Amazon itself is the entity attributing the book to the more famous Jane Friedman. This is a case where the "impersonator" appears to be legally fine and Amazon is on questionable ground.
> At the very least, if you look at my author profile on Amazon, these junk books don’t appear. It sounds like maybe this is not happening? If they are just appearing under the search for “AuthorName” I am not sure there really is a problem with Amazon’s system. IANAL, perhaps Amazon still has some liability if an author is using a fraudulent pen name for books they submit.
For example, this is a blank notebook on Amazon Canada that a seller has stuck her all-lowercase name upon. If I click the author name on the listing, I'm taken to an author search page that intermingles it with her real books.[1]
That strongly implies Amazon asserting they're one and the same.
Knowing that in the reverse this does not hold tells me that this us probably an unconsidered edge-case and not intentional design. But still, Amazon is, in that search, saying "oh you're looking for more jane friedman (lowercase) here's Jane Friedman (title case)" which implies they're the same person.
I'd call that a software bug... but now that Friedman has informed them, they can't plead ignorance of the bug.
[1] https://www.amazon.ca/NOTEBOOK-Notebook-journal-jane-friedma...
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We’re in a race to the bottom. There’s no way a company selling legitimate products will be able to compete or grow a customer base in the AI future, because we’ll be swimming in garbage.
This might be why physical bookstores are making a comeback. Trustworthy curation is essential, and worth paying a premium for. This has always been the case, but maybe not fully appreciated.
And speaking of convenience, it would be a big shame if we had to go back to physical stores for non-trivial purchases because we can't trust anything online.
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It's amazing how many people aren't aware of this. This should be way more publicized. I was talking to a business partner a while back and mentioned I'm not using Amazon and they were shocked. When I listed all my reasons and this one came up, they didn't believe me and we stopped talking until they looked it up online and were convinced. They were using Amazon to order all supplements and it stopped then and there.
> we stopped talking until they looked it up online and were convinced. So what did they see that finally convinced them?
Let me tell you how to buy a kindle book for my kid’s Kindle that is connected via a child account in “Amazon Household” to my Amazon account. (This opening sentence already signals how the rest of this will go). A child’s account can’t buy books - you have to do it for them. 1. I open Amazon app on my iphone and find the book - “This app does not support purchasing of this content”. 2. I open Kindle app on my iphone…
Just teach your kid libgen and be done with it.
Personally, I stick with paper books for kids, even books (and not picture books.)
EDIT: Added a missing closing parentheses. I'm a bad LISPer...
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How does that help solve the problem, especially given it's a problem that the marketplace isn't interested in solving?
only "official" books that were written by the author would come accompanied with a token that verifies it; to side-step marketplaces (at least on physical copies), publishers could embedded an NFC chip into the book, consumer taps it with their phone to auth it; token also gets access to special discord, early release of author's next book, etc
Can't trust reviews on google maps, glassdoor, amazon, or trip advisor. Can't trust products fulfilled by Amazon or any site with a 3rd party market integrated (Walmart does this too). Can't trust that new book by an author you like and buy is actually written by them and not a scammer. Can't trust nothin' anymore!
Let me tell you how to buy a kindle book for my kid’s Kindle that is connected via a child account in “Amazon Household” to my Amazon account. (This opening sentence already signals how the rest of this will go). A child’s account can’t buy books - you have to do it for them. 1. I open Amazon app on my iphone and find the book - “This app does not support purchasing of this content”. 2. I open Kindle app on my iphone…
compare this with the piracy option: search for torrent or download link, click, wait for download to finish. Upload to device. Read and enjoy.
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Assuming they dont just have the same name but are intentionally impersonating you - sounds like fraud, false advertising or identity theft [ianal]
The example book just has the same name. It should be defensible; you can write under any name you want. Amazon itself is the entity attributing the book to the more famous Jane Friedman. This is a case where the "impersonator" appears to be legally fine and Amazon is on questionable ground.
Sort of. Publishing under a pseudonym is fine, but most US states have laws that prevent you from using someone else's name and likeness without their permission.