Amazon deletes the official version from Kindle Unlimited due to illegal upload of pirated e-books



Amazon offers a preferential service called KDP Select to users who publish e-books on Kindle, with the condition that they sell e-books exclusively on Kindle. However, due to the illegal upload of a pirated version of an e-book to a website, it is considered to have violated the contract, and the e-book is deleted from Amazon's subscription service Kindle Unlimited. , TorrentFreak, a web media familiar with copyright infringement and digital rights, reported.

Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear on Pirate Sites * TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/amazon-removes-books-from-kindle-unlimited-after-they-appear-on-pirate-sites-230206/

For small publishers and individual creators, Amazon's Kindle has become an excellent platform for publishing e-books. In particular, authors can earn income according to the number of pages read by subscribing to KDP Select, which allows you to subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, an all-you-can-read service.

The KDP Select agreement includes 'selling the e-book version of the work exclusively on Amazon's platform.' However, over the past few weeks, there have been reports of a series of cases in which Amazon removed the e-book from Kindle Unlimited because the illegal publication of the e-book on a pirated site was deemed a breach of contract. About.

Raven Kennedy , a writer who publishes the fantasy work `` The Plated Prisoner Series '' on Amazon, reported in early February 2023 that two books were removed from Kindle Unlimited. Amazon explained why it removed the books from Kindle Unlimited, ``because these books were widely available on the web.'' It was a pirated website that uploaded e-books to.



In an Instagram post, Kennedy said, 'Copyright infringement is out of my control. Even if I pay a lot of money to takedown notice companies and constantly check the web for pirated material, everything We can't keep up with the intellectual property infringement of ', 'And instead of helping authors, Amazon threatens them. Ironically, people who upload pirated copies are getting files from Amazon.' .

Also, on February 5, 2023, Carissa Broadbent , who sells fantasy romance works on Kindle, also said that the work was considered `` freely available on the web '' due to pirated editions that infringed copyright, and Kindle Reported removed from Unlimited.



Ultimately, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Broadbent's claims were accepted, and the e-book was published again on Kindle Unlimited. However, because complaints consume unnecessary time and effort, and revenue is damaged by the suspension of publication, even temporarily, it is difficult to deny that it has been published on a pirated website. Amazon's handling of removing the original e-book from Kindle Unlimited for a reason has been criticized.

On the online signature site Change.org, a page was created asking Amazon to change the KDP Select policy, and at the time of writing the article, more than 35,000 signatures were gathered. Marlow Locker, who started the petition, said Amazon has become a place for illegal uploaders of pirated copies to copy data, and it would be foolish for Amazon to punish authors by removing ebooks from KDP Select. indicate. Amazon claims that it should change its KDP Select policy and implement stronger content protections to help authors.

Stop the unfair removal of titles on Amazon — Change the KDP Select Policy! Change.org
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-unfair-removal-of-titles-on-amazon-change-the-kdp-select-policy



An Amazon spokesperson said Amazon is aware of the series of complaints and is working with relevant parties to find an appropriate resolution. An Amazon spokesperson told TorrentFreak, ``We welcome author feedback and will work directly with authors to address any issues or errors impacting their accounts.''

However, TorrentFreak points out that even large publishers and governments have not eradicated pirated websites in the first place, and it is impossible for individual authors to deal with pirated editions. So it makes more sense for Amazon to update its KDP Select policy to exclude pirated websites from its exclusive rules. No title can be guaranteed,” said TorrentFreak.

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