Inside the Amazon swamp: how fakes and frauds engulfed the world’s biggest bookshop https://archive.ph/X1P5v
> "The academic Martin Kleppmann...recently discovered that fake copies of his 2017 book Designing Data-Intensive Applications were widely available. “I only discovered [it was going on] because of the number of reviews from genuine readers that started appearing, complaining about poor print [quality] and missing pages,” he says.
I've bought printed books on demand on Amazon, the first week they were released, (so not like a pirate had any time to duplicate it); that had horrendous print quality, super low quality screen caps (like 35dpi).
Its so I rethink my decision to have a printed tech book if the author only produces it as an Amazon print-on-demand title. Such that when I find a tech book that I want to read, I generally search elsewhere for it first, and if Amazon is the _only_ vendor that has it, I assume it is an Amazon print-on-demand text, and reconsider if I should buy it because I know I'll just be disappointed in crap quality.
So not only pirates doing it, Amazon is doing it itself as it races to the bottom to compete against who?