"As bad, when the company acted, he stated, it would often remove pirated e-books but allow e-book pirates to remain on the site."<p>This tolerance of outright, blatant theft stands in striking contrast the draconian approach that Google takes to Android app developers who can be perma-banned without appeal from all of Google's services if they are even suspected of minor infringements of Google's policies.<p>"In May, Google stopped enrolling any new self-publishing authors."<p>And this is why we can't have (semi) nice things. I love reading crappy fan-fic and worse poetry.