Comment Re:Lawsuit incoming? (Score 1) 90
Amazon does a decent job of both flagging things and responding appropriately. I've got a small ebook publishing company and we've occasionally picked up the rights to books that were either published by another publisher first, or self published and we help the author do a major edit and better cover and republish. Usually amazon asks us to confirm that we really have the rights to publish something, generally just by declaration, but in at least one case they asked us for a scan of the contract (which was easy enough to supply). They also do a lot of searching in the background and will flag a book if it's got a lot of links in it (this has happened when we had detailed references in books) and if it looks like it's got similar content to someone's blog. Google doesn't seem to do any of that, despite having fairly complete copies of the interwebs back pretty far.