Amazon is taking action against a widespread Kindle "books" scam.
It works like this: someone writes a book - usually about marketing - and sells the rights (Private Label Rights) to others. They then sell the "book" in the Kindle bookstore. Basically, it's the same book, sometimes tweaked a little, with different titles and different covers.
The New York Times reports that Amazon is apparently now weeding out the copycats:
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It works like this: someone writes a book - usually about marketing - and sells the rights (Private Label Rights) to others. They then sell the "book" in the Kindle bookstore. Basically, it's the same book, sometimes tweaked a little, with different titles and different covers.
The New York Times reports that Amazon is apparently now weeding out the copycats:
Amazon, apparently worried that consumers will get lost in a maze of indistinguishable items, appears to be cracking down. On Warrior Forum, an Internet marketing site, commentators have been reporting this week that Amazon was yanking their P.L.R. e-books from the Kindle store. Amazon tells the offenders that their copycats “diminish the experience for customers.”Asked about this, an Amazon spokeswoman, Brittany Turner, said, “We have worked steadily to build processes to detect and remove undifferentiated or barely differentiated versions of e-books.”
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