Accusation that there are cases where you will receive a 'bad fake' that infringes copyright when you order a book from Amazon

When purchasing a particular book on Amazon, some have accused the book of being sold by a third party who is not a legitimate publisher and who is infringing copyright. Books sent by such vendors are thinner than usual, cut into smaller pieces and have broken designs, and in the worst case, they arrive completely blank.

Amazon has a book piracy problem. Besides the issue below (book content getting repackaged as a different book) there is an even bigger issue: sellers of counterfeit books.

Amazon lets anyone say they're selling a particular book, and proceeds to route order to their inventory. Https://t.co/00bs6FGWQM

— François Chollet (@fchollet) July 8, 2022

Amazon's Book Piracy Problem --Matt Harrison's Blog
https://hairysun.com/amazons-book-piracy-problem.html

Amazon sales of Deep Learning with Python are counterfeit | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32210256

According to Matt Harrison's blog, which publishes technical books on the programming language Python, some readers complained that the e-books that Harrison had published at his own expense were 'poor quality for the Kindle version.' rice field. When Harrison, who did not publish on the Kindle, reconfirmed, it was discovered that an anonymous publisher had uploaded his book on the Kindle and sold it on Amazon.

Francois Colette, an engineer involved in deep learning and Python, also reported similar damage on Twitter. According to Mr. Colette, the Kindle version and paper bag of the book ' Deep Learning with Python ' that he publishes are sold on Amazon by an unfamiliar seller called 'Sacred Gamez'. Mr. Colette has contacted Amazon many times, but there is no clear response, calling for 'Please buy from the correct publisher, not buy a fake on Amazon.'

For instance, if you go to the page of DLwP2 on Amazon, you see that it's being sold by a 3rd party seller named 'Sacred Gamez'.

If you click 'buy', you won't get the actual book from Manning. You get a low-quality counterfeit printed by the fraudulent seller (from the book PDF) pic.twitter.com/qAD2rg5a00

— François Chollet (@fchollet) July 8, 2022

Colette shows you 'how to identify counterfeit products' by comparing regular books with counterfeit products purchased from anonymous publishers on Amazon. According to Colette, the print quality of the fake is quite poor, the color shades are dull, the paper is thin and the book thickness is clearly different, and the book is cut smaller than a normal book. And that.

Q: How do I know if my copy is counterfeit?

A: The surest way to check is to try to register it with Manning at: https://t.co/WAQ42jTz7I

Other than that, the fakes have much lower print / make quality.

--Darker cover colors.
--Flimsier paper.
--Poorly bound.
--Cut smaller. Pic.twitter.com/xChRUuXQIr

— François Chollet (@fchollet) July 23, 2022

Harrison's book was published at his own expense, but Colette's book and other books on deep learning and algorithms have been released by a technical book publisher called Manning , and several technical books have been damaged. 'If you recently purchased a technical book from Amazon, it's more than 50% likely to be fake,' Colette said, claiming that he wasn't the only one affected. We also encourage you to buy directly from an authorized publisher and claim a refund if you buy a poor quality fake on Amazon.

Hacker News also discusses a similar 'counterfeit book sale on Amazon' case, accusing the case of receiving a book consisting of a cover and blank pages when purchasing a medical book. There are skeptical opinions throughout the market, such as the fact that books have been sent in poor quality, and that inferior goods have been sent over and over again after applying for replacement due to the arrival of poor quality books. In addition, while it has been pointed out that readers read books without worrying about counterfeit products, there are also voices that warn that 'it would be fatal if similar counterfeit products occur in food products'. ..