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If I had to take a guess this is related to books that have illegal PDF(s) in the wild. Paired with Amazon making little to no effort to verify product authenticity.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/amazo...



Or legal PDFs. No Starch Press books are regularly featured in Humble Bundles in PDF form, including the book from the Tweet.


I got a control theory book from Amazon once which was just the cover. The inside was a veterinary handbook by a different publisher.

I don't think there's a PDF for that controls textbook anywhere, so clearly the counterfeiter just substituted in a different one...




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