[peel] Re: Peel Wikia pages on sale at Amazon ---- what is going on?

[Mike Parker]

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 From: haze_harrison <haze.harrison@btinternet.com>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 16:18
Subject: [peel] Re: Peel Wikia pages on sale at Amazon ---- what is going on?
 

  
Amazon have just sent me this e-mail (I sell a few things on Amazon - web printouts are not among them!)

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Dear Seller,

In order to ensure we are meeting our customers' expectations, we have changed our content guidelines to include the suppression of items consisting entirely, or largely, of content that is freely available on, or originates from, the web.

These items will no longer appear in search and browse, and it will no longer be possible for sellers to list them on the website. For more information, see this seller Help page:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=3216801 
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Good, a step in the right direction, almost! Amazon still have the "weatherman22's tapes" in stock and still searchable. Hopefully they will all start to disappear in the next few days...  >DAMN CHEEK, FIVE  OF THEM ARE SELLING IT TOO.

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
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> how do we stop it? do we know who is doing it?
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> k
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Stuart" <stuartb@> wrote:
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> > http://www.amazon.co.uk/JOHN-PEEL-WEATHERMAN22S-TAPES-DEC/dp/1234743833
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> > Well I know the answer to this one, courtesy of Private Eye. Someone or some organisation is selling printed copies of information from Wikipedia on Amazon, and it looks like they have expanded to Wikia too. Nonetheless it was a shock to see my Wikia pages on sale.
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> > There have been many complaints to Amazon from those who fell for purchasing freely available information.
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> > Stuart
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