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Amazon’s Brand of Censorship – Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author – Part 3

Amazon’s Brand of Censorship – Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author – Part 3

Amazon’s Brand of Censorship – Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author – Part 3 Now, the week-end is over, the full implication of the dangers included in violating Amazon Content Guidelines have fully sunk in, it is time to examine them with total attention. So, without further ado, let’s broach the fifth and last item on the agenda. (please note that the featured image is a Print Screen of these Amazon content guidelines as of … Read entire article »

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Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author – Part 2

Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author – Part 2

Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author – Part 2 Back to part 1 – Onto Part 3 Now onto to the slightly more disputable item, the confidentiality… 3. Revealing confidential information If you ever wondered why it is so difficult to find out statistics about sales figures by self-published writers, here it is, underlined below, in an extract of Amazon KDP Terms and Conditions. 7 Confidentiality. You will not, without our express, prior written permission: (a) issue any … Read entire article »

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Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author! – Part 1

Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author! – Part 1

Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author! – Part 1 So your book is now finished and up on Amazon shelves and you are keen to push the sales. Yet, better beware of using tactics that are in violation with the Terms and Condition of Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, as this would effectively give Amazon grounds to ban you for life from using their services as an author. As 80% of online book sales typically … Read entire article »

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10 Things Amazon should correct in the Kindle

10 Things Amazon should correct in the Kindle

10 Things Amazon should correct in the Kindle Originally posted by Guido  Henkel· I am a huge fan of the Kindle. Always been. I owned a first-generation Kindle and in my mind, the Kindle was every bit as revolutionary a product as the iPhone. A game changer. However, as great as it is, even the Kindle is not perfect. I am not talking here about buttons being too small or somesuch thing. I am talking about the … Read entire article »

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Help Lines for Formatting Problems

Help Lines for Formatting Problems

No matter how well we are prepared, some issues might and probably will come up while we are formatting our manuscript . So, below is a list of resources that can be useful to find answers to specific problems encountered while formatting. Amazon Contacts and Links DTP technical support: [email protected] The Digital Publishing Department: [email protected] The Digital Rights Group: [email protected] The Digital Text Platform (DTP): (The publishing system for Amazon books) http://dtp.amazon.com DTP Forums: (Official discussion forums) http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums Assorted Websites, Tools, Blogs, and Forums Forums varied http://forums.pragprog.com/forums/148/topics/9405 http://absolutewrite.com/forums/search.php?searchid=21095838 Microsoft Word help: … Read entire article »

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J.R. Rain : Over 400 000 Books Sold So Far Thanks to the Law of Attraction!

J.R. Rain : Over 400 000 Books Sold So Far Thanks to the Law of Attraction!

An ex private eye in Hollywood, J.R. Rain is now a vastly successful full time writer of paranormal mysteries and romance. He lives in a small house on an island in the Pacific West with his dog and shoots novels from the hip at breakneck pace, always hitting the bestsellers list in bull’s eye. With his new short story collection, Vampire Blues: Four Stories available in early September, J.R. Rain has generously agreed to spend … Read entire article »

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Amazon Cracks Down on Spam

Amazon Cracks Down on Spam

Last Monday, we published a post about spam on Kindle Direct Publish. This is a problem that had been ongoing for a few months now and getting worse. It seems Amazon is now tackling the problem. This week, it cracked down on duplicate ebooks in its Kindle Store, pulling titles because they “diminish the experience for customers…” which is why Amazon has decided to rid itself of “undifferentiated or barely differentiated versions of e-books.” Here is a … Read entire article »

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ePublishing Week in Brief – 8th to 12th of August 2011

ePublishing Week in Brief – 8th to 12th of August 2011

Apple and five of the six largest publishing houses are being sued in a class action suit. The charge illegal price. The dispute comes as the e-book industry appears set for explosive growth. According to the new BookStats survey, e-book revenue for trade publishers jumped up by 1274 percent since 2008, reaching $878 million in 2010. E-book net sales increased to 114 million last year, up 1039.6 percent since 2008. Filed by the Seattle-based law … Read entire article »

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Avoiding Spam eBooks on Kindle

Avoiding Spam eBooks on Kindle

Amazon enables writers to publish their book on Kindle Direct Publish for free, which is undoubtedly a generous idea. However, the other side of that shining coin is that spammers are abusing that system to earn a quick buck at the expense of the reader. Amazon is now selling more ebooks than paperbacks, yet there are no statistics as to how many of these sales are sales of spam books or stolen books. The problems a. Spam ebooks What … Read entire article »

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