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<img alt="Kindle logo" class="size-full wp-image-77648 aligncenter" height="161" mce_src="http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/9792/11kindlelogo.jpg" src="http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/9792/11kindlelogo.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="Kindle logo" width="150" />Remember back in June we reported on the topic of spam books taking over Amazon’s Kindle book store? Well, just in case you forgot, spammers have re-publishing books (both out of copyright and those still under copyright) as their own titles; indirectly stealing money from many self-published authors who have worked hard to write them in the first place.</div>
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After months of these scams going on, it seems like Amazon is finally cracking down on those spammers. According to an email that a spammer received recently, here’s what Amazon had to say:</div>
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Amazon finally cracking down on spam books

Remember back in June we reported on the topic of spam books taking over Amazon’s Kindle book store? Well, just in case you forgot, spam...