{"id":2079,"date":"2019-04-30T16:36:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T05:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2019-04-30T16:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T05:36:58","slug":"amazon-self-published-authors-suspended-without-sufficient-explanation-of-wrongdoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2019\/04\/30\/2079\/amazon-self-published-authors-suspended-without-sufficient-explanation-of-wrongdoing\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon self-published authors suspended \u2018without sufficient explanation of wrongdoing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the US, self-published authors have claimed Amazon removed their ebooks from sale without sufficient explanation of wrongdoing, reports Yahoo Finance<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amazon has reportedly been cracking down on authors who abuse the Kindle Direct Publishing Select program, which offers authors enrolment in Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners\u2019 Lending Library in exchange for exclusivity with Amazon. There have been reports<\/a> of Kindle Unlimited authors, who are paid from a collective royalty fund based on how many ebook pages are read, engaging in \u2018book stuffing\u2019\u2014faking the number of book pages read.<\/p>\n

These methods include adding a \u2018bonus content\u2019 link at the start of a book, which takes the reader to the end. Such manipulations are grounds for the company to pull an author\u2019s book from the Kindle store and terminate the author\u2019s Kindle Direct Publishing account.<\/p>\n

However, six authors who spoke to Yahoo Finance <\/em>claim they\u2019d done nothing wrong. Jason Cipriano, a self-published author who claims to have sold 143,000 copies of his novels through Kindle Direct Publishing, said he had yet to receive \u2018a clear, detailed explanation from Amazon\u2019 after his books were pulled from the Kindle Store and his publishing account suspended.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Michael-Scott Earle, an author of over 45 novels, received an email from Amazon stating his Kindle Direct Publishing account was also involved in the \u2018manipulation of KDP services including Kindle Unlimited\u2019. \u2018I imagine I make them probably about a half-million dollars a year which is nothing to them\u2014it\u2019s probably a rounding error to them,\u2019 said Earle. \u2018But could they have called me or maybe sent me an email? I\u2019m not even worth someone reaching out to and saying, \u201cHey, Michael-Scott, we\u2019re seeing this or that with your account. What\u2019s going on?\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

Amazon declined to comment on the cases to Yahoo Finance<\/em>, but said it \u2018takes attempts to manipulate our services very seriously\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the US, self-published authors have claimed Amazon removed their ebooks from sale without sufficient explanation of wrongdoing, reports Yahoo Finance. Amazon has reportedly been cracking down on authors who abuse the Kindle Direct Publishing Select program, which offers authors enrolment in Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners\u2019 Lending Library in exchange for exclusivity with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}