Well, at least it mentions something about 10%.īut to find out why you get your account suspended, well, then it gets difficult. On book stuffing, there is this page of rules. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”īut, you can go to Amazon’s Terms and Conditions, if you have hours to waste, or if you are a lawyer, and try to understand. “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “Refer to our Terms and Conditions.”ĭouglas Adams could well have been referring to Amazon in this quote. If you ever want a definitive answer to a why question, don’t bother asking KPD help or Amazon Customer Relations because you will always get the same response. Particularly in the response from Amazon when you ask why, about anything? I can’t vouch for the honesty of the authors in this article on Yahoo News, but their stories ring true when you have a problem as an author with Amazon.
Why? Because scammers and ebook stuffers using jump links are scooping up a sizeable percentage of the monthly pot, and Amazon is having all sorts of trouble dealing with it.Īmazon knows there is a problem, and as usual, has reacted with a sledgehammer that has hit a few scammers.īut also adversely affected honest authors who had no idea that they had done anything wrong. Note on Kindle word count Words count for authorsīut for honest authors, Amazon’s inability to calculate exactly how many words and pages a reader indeed reads of a Kindle book via their Kindle Unlimited subscription services is costing authors a lot of money.
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