I suspect that if Amazon were approached on this, they'd just throw their hands up and say "We're just a retailer" and therefore be untouchable. Because if they were a publisher they'd get their arses sued completely off.

Over on Twit (http://www.twit.tv) there's a program called 'This Week In Law'. I might send them an email so they can do apodvast about this. It would be good to get some legal opinion on it.

I've been having a rant about these publishers who photocopy old books then bind the photocopies and sell that as a book,. but this is even worse.