alt Hacker News> That's a book a day (give or take), per account. No human author is publishing a book per day.
Suppose you're a 50 year old human author who has published a book a year since you were 18, and would now like to start selling them on Amazon for the first time. Should they hold you up for multiple years because you're rate limited to uploading one a month?
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If the tradeoff for removing millions of false positives is one false negative then yeah, that's worth it.
The example is disingenuous. It's a tradeoff we have to make, and there's not many 50 year olds hoarding their masterpieces.
That's such an unreasonably niche and unlikely situation to justify letting the rest of your customers drown in slop
That'd be like saying a forum can't have rate limits for posts because someone may write 10,000 discussion topics over a year and post them all at once.
Surely Amazon could invest in some form of support for niche case authors? Especially since there are not going to be very many legitimate "I have an enormous backlog of work" authors who aren't represented by a legit publisher.
Not saying there are zero, but if you're faced with a thousand scammers and one niche-case author... you go with blocking the scammers if you're serious about it.