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a self-published ebook author Amazon, James Crawford, who discovered that Amazon "accidentally" gave his free e-book over 6,000 times and then refused to pay royalties. The "mistake" was actually a bad algorithm. Apparently, when you join the Amazon platform, the company made a promise to provide the best price, and if they are to offer them the same thing cheaper elsewhere, they have the right to automatically reduce the price. But here, the algorithm Amazon has taken a "three sample chapters" as free platform Nook, like the book. Therefore, the price automatically deleted ebook Crawfod of $ 5.99 to $ 0. He took several weeks to resolve, and his time, 6116 people have downloaded the free version.



Amazon refused to pay royalties, saying that under his contract, is discharged having to pay royalties for such errors. Although this may be true, I wonder if there really is a case of copyright there. Here's another cloudy situation at the border between sales and foreign licenses . After all, Crawford seems to be technically work licenses to distribute Amazon with a specific condition: it is priced at $ 5.99 with some royalties back to Crawford. Provide free as a special case of white unauthorized distribution, which could give rise to a claim of copyright.



That said, I agree with the point that many have in Crawford, it's probably better just with the experience in advertising, and on the basis that, instead of continuing. Claiming that it would be costly and uncertain. And it may actually hurt sales, often people do not like litigation. Readers can be more willing to directly support Crawford after only listening to your story - and seeing that it was a good sport about it, which would recognize that this error might lead to more readers to his work, and readers can incorporate other (paying players) in the future. Yet it is another case where the difference between physical and digital sales "license" becomes clear
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