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Amazon is stealing - Part 3: Amazon withdraws

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

This is a continued story - read also Part 1 and Part 2. I have received the following mail from Amazon:

Dear Mr. Petersen:

Thank you for your message. Without any admission of wrongdoing, please be advised that we are in the process of removing  ”The Matrix Cookbook (Kindle Edition)”  ASIN: B0027P9C2S from Amazon.com. It typically takes 2-3 days for a listing to disappear once it has been removed from our catalog. We trust this will bring this matter to a close.

This letter is written without prejudice to any rights, remedies or defenses to which Amazon.com and its affiliates may be entitled, all of which are expressly reserved.

Thank you - what a relief.

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Amazon is stealing - Part 2

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

This is continued story starting here. Ok, so they didn’t respond to the first email sent via a webform to Amazon Kindle. Today I sent the following mail to copyright@amazon.com

Dear Sirs/Madams

I have found out that the document “The Matrix Cookbook” is available from Amazon Kindle

http://www.amazon.com/The-Matrix-Cookbook-ebook/dp/B0027P9C2S

I am co-author of the document, and have no idea how or why it has ended on Amazon. The copyright holder is Technical University of Denmark and they have not authorized this, so I will strongly urge you to remove it from your services immediately.

On the kindle website, the document have so-called editors named “TFTPG” which stands for The Flying Tigers Printing Group (http://www.tftpg.com). “The Matrix Cookbook” has nothing to do with this organization and I don’t know why they are related on Amazon.

I would appreciate a swift respons to this email. Thanks.

Best regards, Kaare

Lets see if that helps …

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Amazon is stealing!

Monday, May 25th, 2009

This morning, I found out that The Matrix Cookbook is being sold at Amazon (Kindle version). How often does that happen - that Amazon find something on the internet and starts making money on it, without even contacting the authors, publisher, copyright holders, or someone otherwise related to the material?

So I wrote them an email instructing them to remove it immediately - lets see if they have the curtesey to respond to that.

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