At the very least they should copy it and reprint
Yeah but they aren’t a printer or a publisher in their own right. They’re a distributor and that’s a lot of the problem.
They would need a legal agreement to do that and that would cost money and time and possibly make them liable for using the data to train AI so they aren’t going to do that.
For the downvoters: Amazon doesn’t have a physical publishing arm. We aren’t talking about ebooks here.
Amazon doesn’t have a physical publishing arm.
They used to. Did they get rid of it?
I have been looking for it and can’t find a record of it. They have been a book seller and it looks like they may have at some point partnered with publishers but everything I can find at the moment says ebooks only.
Maybe it was this: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/
TL;DR: They print the book when it’s purchased
Anyone know what the rare titles are?
From reports they aren’t illuminated manuscripts they tend to be references and manuals that aren’t common.