I guess Amazon will shut it down eventually or check permission for the ebook before letting you read it. I write ebooks and had one published on Kindle with my Orion Blastar character that I am always reinventing.
https://read.amazon.com/?asin=B007LAX6YY for those interested in the book. See if it works.
For some reason it is also here:
https://read.amazon.com/?asin=B007M4AACA
But it only includes the copyright page, and the rest of the ebook is gone. I submitted a new copy that fixed formatting errors, but later found out MS-Word 2010 corrupted my original data file on my hard drive. I did a recovery and switched to LibreOffice because MS-Office kept giving me problems.
I am in the process of rewriting the ebook, and I can see why people had an issue with it, I'll try to get it reuploaded if all that is showing up is the copyright page.
Thanks for the info, it shows me that the readers get a different version of the ebook than what I get as the author. I didn't know the ebook only had a copyright page for the updated version, when I previewed it in the Amazon Kindle preview program it was the whole ebook and not just the copyright page. So this little 'hack' actually helped me as an author.
Also the first edition did not have hyperlinks but the second edition did.
Oddly enough it does work somewhat. I wonder what other ebooks are sample only and which ones are the full version?
Anyway I just uploaded a new edition of the ebook, in 24 hours Amazon will approve or reject it. I wanted to give it away for free, but Amazon limits that, not only that but the lowest I can charge is $0.99USD and they won't let me self publish it to other ebook stores.
If anyone wants a free copy, email me at orionblastar@gmail.com if interested.
After flipping ahead several pages in a book I pulled up, I got a pop-up with this message:
"You have reached the end of the sample content. You can buy the full version from the Kindle Store or return to your sample."
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/DQjC5he.png