Īmazon has the KDP Select publishing option that requires 100 percent exclusivity - e-book publishing under this option cannot be sold anywhere else, until the enrollment in KDP Select expires. After numerous commentators observed that Apple's popular App Store offers 70% of royalties to the publisher, Amazon began a program that offers 70% royalties to Kindle publishers who agree to certain conditions. The remaining 35% is split between the author and publisher. In a Deceminterview with The New York Times, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed that Amazon keeps 65% of the revenue from all e-book sales for the Kindle.
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Read the full article on The Digital Reader.Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) was in open beta testing in late 2007 and the platform was promoted to established authors by e-mail and by advertisements at. “Chance Carter is the perfect example of both how the book-stuffing con works, and how Amazon is completely incapable of stopping the scammers.” Update: Unfortunately, I think I will be continually updating Kindle scams. One can only hope that Amazon takes action very soon to protect readers and authors from these obvious Kindle scams. Yet, the scams continue in various forms, because Amazon still can’t count pages. In reaction, Amazon has tried limiting the length of ebooks and placed bans on tables of content at the end of an ebook. So they added skip links at the beginning of a (trash) ebook to get readers to go to the last page of the book with a promise of some phony reward or special offer. Scammers were quick to recognize this flaw almost as soon as Amazon released KU. Therefore, if a reader skips pages, Kindle counts the skipped pages. Kindle makes the calculation based on the location a reader is at in an ebook. But in fact, Amazon doesn’t really know how many. Of course, authors are paid by the number of pages that are read. I mean, one author publishing 84 ebooks in one year is a pretty good clue that something is amiss.Īnother problem that scammers exploit with ease is Amazon’s technical inability to count pages that are read by Kindle Unlimited (KU) subscribers. It’s a tough world out there in self-publishing, for the honest, hard-working self-published author.īut for the crooks, thieves, and miscreants, well, it’s easy pickings. It must be noted, though, that Amazon technically also profits off its catfish:įor every dollar, someone like Pylarinos or Marrocco makes off the Kindle store, Amazon makes $1.86. Perhaps this quote from the Washington Post article will help you understand why Amazon doesn’t move as fast as one would like to think it should. So if it is so easy to spot a Kindle scam, why don’t Amazon react and close down the scammers? It’s manipulating or buying reviews to give these Kindle scam books some credibility. There is no regard whatsoever for quality. But sadly, now it’s the name of a Kindle scam author.Īs the article in the Washington Post explains, it is all about publishing content. Those who have read Atlas Shrugged will recognize this name immediately. In fact, one author, by the name of Dagny Taggart, published 84 books in one year. And that they produce new ebooks at a phenomenal rate. The article states that non-fiction self-help ebooks are the prime target of these Kindle scams. How an industry of ‘Amazon entrepreneurs’ pulled off the Internet’s craftiest catfishing scheme. This article in the Washington Post goes into great detail. No, they outsource the time-consuming writing part and simply concentrate on milking the market. It might feel like a kick in the guts to know that there are Kindle scams raking in mountains of money.Īnd they don’t even write the ebooks themselves. All of them are battling away day after day trying to make a go of selling fiction. There are hard-working self-publishing authors out there.
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