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The whole "he gave the entire book away for free" thing is really a nonstarter. It doesn't matter if he did; he still didn't give away the right to re-distribute it to others. Butternut needs to send the DMCA notice to Google, though. It's hosted on Google Drive.Yeah, I was able to save a full copy of the tard book from Google Drive. As Joshua stated, butternut needs to soo da Googlez. But even then, he'll get dickslapped when Mr. Skordas reminds the courts that this dipshit "accidentally" left his sample on Amazon as the whole thing--for more than a day, if memory serves. Personal butternut squash problems--not farm problems.
You could perhaps, somewhat plausibly, argue that distributing a "preview" falls under fair use when it's a representative sample so that people can see what it's like (and you can have some basis to show people for your commentary/discussion about it). But when the "preview" is the entire book, and that was pretty obviously a mistake, it'd be pretty tough to argue that.