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Aug 20 2019
After the New York Times posted a story Monday that pointed to the availability of counterfeit books in Amazon's bookstore, calling the marketplace "a place where copyright laws hold remarkably little sway," the tech giant has responded with a lengthy statement. Amazon said the books under scrutiny are "are authentic titles provided to us by publishing houses" and that the real issue has to do with "differing copyright timing between countries."
To illustrate the issue, David Streitfeld, the author of the Times article (called "Paging Big Brother"), says he purchased 12 "fake and illegitimate" books by George Orwell in a matter of weeks from Amazon. Some, he wrote, were published in other countries, while others were printed in the States and are "straightforward counterfeits." ...
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