Amazon forcing writer to refund self-published book that got a book offer

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I did a search but couldn't see a topic on this.

As I understand it, here's what is going on. The writer Jamie McGuire self-published a book called 'Beautiful Disaster'. The book sold so well that a regular publisher picked the book up. Now Amazon is sending a mass mail to all the purchasers of the self-published version, advising people to demand a refund. The refund has to be paid by the author. There is no flaws in the self-published work.

Here's the blog post written by the writer.

http://www.jamiemcguire.com/amazon-beautiful-disaster-emails/

I'm not sure why this is going on, or what is behind it. The blog post is sort of shallow on detail, but maybe this is something that should be discussed.
 
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