Comments on: Amazon bans Kindle Store spam (finally)

By: Typee

Typee — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:30:54 +0000

If they try to implement this (which would be highly welcome) it will backfire bigtime. They do not only have a crappy bot that is traing to detect plagiarism or copyright infringements, obviously its results are not double checked by humans. Third, all this could be prevented if the right amount of people with the right training would survey the publishing process. Eight weeks back these people were not even able to spot PD books that were annotated with the original Wikipedia text to make the difference – including the original Wikipedia links!

By: ctanwriter

ctanwriter — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:48:10 +0000

Argh WordPress ate my comment…?

It said publishers of legit content are being challenged. Circlet Press has the first chapter or thousand words of every book free to sample on our website. We got a letter from Amazon’s auto detection robot threatening to pull the titles. Pointing out its our own promo website seems to have cleared it up. For now.

By: ctanwriter

ctanwriter — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:45:10 +0000

A welcome move, although the email publishers get from the Amazon “web content” robot is a bit scary. Circlet Press got a letter saying they’d detected our books’ content being freely available and we had five days to prove our copyright claim or they’d be pulled. An email explaining that yes, the first chapter of every book is up as a free sample seems to have cleared it up.