Amazon is cracking down on merchants using its site to sell counterfeit textbooks, CNBC reported. A sting operation lead to the suspension of at least 20 merchants — a move intended to send publishers a clear message that Amazon is a serious partner in their effort to prevent the sale of counterfeit product. Booksellers whose accounts were suspended had all shipped counterfeit books to one Clara Dufour – a fake name, perhaps one carefully chosen boost the story’s PR. Amazon soon issued a statement: “These counterfeit books were caught in a test buy program we operate, which is just one […]