Good trick but you have to sign into Amazon to activate the offline reader for Amazon Kindle Cloud reader. If not then it won't work. Also it seems to go to a part of the book instead of the first page or cover. Perhaps it reads the history of the person who last accessed the ebook in that way?

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.