There are multiple entries with this problem. But in fact, it may well just be one error: that the input included already-registered but as-yet-unpublished books. If the erroneous entries were only for some popular authors, or followed some other pattern that isn't automatic, then I'd suspect fraud. But if he's offering *all* registered but unpublished books for a given publisher (or set of publishers) at $1000, then it's entirely believable that it's an error--a single error that systematically affects all unpublished books. The ISBNs would all be valid because they were in his data. The entries would be wrong because the data wasn't expected to contain unpublished books.
That doesn't change the fact that the guy's an idiot for not filtering out errors in his data before it hits Amazon. Or that he ought to have fixed the underlying problem (lack of filtering) immediately after realizing it was there. But still. I'm more inclined to believe incompetence than malice given his explanation.
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Date: 2009-04-12 08:27 am (UTC)That doesn't change the fact that the guy's an idiot for not filtering out errors in his data before it hits Amazon. Or that he ought to have fixed the underlying problem (lack of filtering) immediately after realizing it was there. But still. I'm more inclined to believe incompetence than malice given his explanation.