{"id":17487,"date":"2017-03-22T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17487"},"modified":"2018-03-02T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T15:58:57","slug":"sellers-printing-counterfeit-books-and-selling-under-amazons-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/sellers-printing-counterfeit-books-and-selling-under-amazons-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Sellers Printing Counterfeit Books and Selling Under Amazon&rsquo;s Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billpollock\/status\/844030960333152256\">Bill Pollock<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=13924546\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billpollock\/status\/844030960333152256\"><p>Images of counterfeit copies of Python for Kids being sold on Amazon. Legit copies are thicker, color, layflat binding, nicer paper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billpollock\/status\/844271713256951808\"><p>Unfortunately, these counterfeits come directly from Amazon&rsquo;s inventory. Not from a third-party seller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/20\/amazon-selling-fake-apple-chargers-and-cables\/\">Amazon Selling Fake Apple Chargers and Cables<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/12\/amazons-chinese-counterfeit-problem-is-getting-worse\/\">Amazon&rsquo;s Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Pollock (via Hacker News): Images of counterfeit copies of Python for Kids being sold on Amazon. Legit copies are thicker, color, layflat binding, nicer paper. Unfortunately, these counterfeits come directly from Amazon&rsquo;s inventory. Not from a third-party seller. Previously: Amazon Selling Fake Apple Chargers and Cables, Amazon&rsquo;s Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,975,101,509,96],"class_list":["post-17487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-books","tag-business","tag-shopping","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17488,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions\/17488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}