CreateSpace: Amazon's CreateSpace Provides a Safe Haven for Textbook Scams, Money Laundering, and Rampant Piracy

Amazon is destroying the Kindle Store from the inside out by letting broken algorithms run the show, punishing innocents while letting major scammers off scot-free. Createspace, in comparison, would better be described as the wild west. Amazon's POD operation is supervised by neither person nor machine, which is why I have found a massive textbook piracy scam there in 2015, and why someone was able to run a money-laundering operation under Amazon's nose. And then there is the piracy operation that I just found today. Early this morning Dave Zatz brought my attention to the plight of Jamie Lendino. Jamie is the editor in chief of a tech blog owned by Ziff-Davis, and he is also the author of Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation (also published by Ziff Davis). That book is being sold through the Kindle Store and distributed through Createspace, and it is also being pirated through Createspace by an exceptionally lazy pirate going by the pseudonym "Steve S.Thomas". The pirated copy of the book not only has the same content, it literally uses the same layout and even the same page headers (which include the original title). All the pirate did was cut a few pages like the copyright [...]You just finished reading Amazon's CreateSpace Provides a Safe Haven for Textbook Scams, Money Laundering, and Rampant Piracy which was published on The Digital Reader.