A look at some egregious cases of counterfeit books sold on Amazon; this year Amazon began listing sales of counterfeit goods as a material risk in SEC filings
SPERRYVILLE, Va. — “The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy” is a medical handbook that recommends the right amount … Tweets: @mobylives , @brianstelter , @bubbaprog , @carmelathetwit , @amazonnews , and @penamerican See also Mediagazer Tweets: Dennis Johnson / @mobylives : The explosion of counterfeit books on Amazon is ripping off publishers like @melvillehouse for millions. Amazon's “hands-off approach... never checking authenticity” has led to “a kind of lawlessness,” says @DavidStreitfeld - still the best Amazon reporter https://www.nytimes.com/... Brian Stelter / @brianstelter : “Amazon takes a hands-off approach to what goes on in its bookstore, never checking the authenticity, much less the quality, of what it sells. It does not oversee the sellers who have flocked to its site in any organized way...” https://www.nytimes.com/... Timothy Burke / @bubbaprog : The FBI regularly seizes domains of torrent sites that facilitate piracy, even though the sites themselves don't possess any pirated content. That's exactly what Amazon is doing with pirated and counterfeit books: https://www.nytimes.com/... Carmela / @carmelathetwit : “This is not really negligence on Amazon's part. It is the company's business model.” @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/... @amazonnews : .@DavidStreitfeld is wrong about Amazon and counterfeit. In 2018, we spent $400M+ to protect customers, stopping 1M+ bad actors and blocking 3B+ bad listings. Story cites small number of complaints; we won't stop until it's zero. Learn more: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... PEN America / @penamerican : “Amazon takes a hands-off approach to what goes on in its bookstore, never checking the authenticity, much less the quality, of what it sells... Publishers, writers and groups such as the @AuthorsGuild said counterfeiting of books on Amazon had surged.” https://www.nytimes.com/... See also Mediagazer