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It effectively cut out the middlemen and removed many of the financial barriers to publishing a book. The launch of Amazon KDP back in 2007 signaled a revolution in the book publishing industry. In the past, it was quite possible for authors to publish huge bestsellers yet have very little financial gains to show for their efforts. Writers who are not yet established often lack the financial resources required for printing, marketing, and distributing a book.Īs a result, many publishing houses draft up book deals that strip authors of their ownership rights while collecting the vast majority of royalties. On top of all that is the issue of adequate compensation. Without the right connections, it can be difficult to land a competent agent.Īnd even if your manuscript reaches the desk of an editor, there is no guarantee that your book will actually reach the publishing stage, let alone arrive on the shelves of a bookstore. Look at the alternatives, Lulu, Barnes and Noble for example.Traditionally, authors often go through a bunch of hoops and gatekeepers in order to get their work in front of the decision makers at publishing houses. Don’t waste your time and save your sanity.

Their behaviour has been really bad for my mental health. This is the most appalling, frustrating and unprofessional company to try and self-publish with. On reading all their other 1 star reviews I see I am just one of many poor souls who has suffered this same nature of frustration and despair at the hands of Amazon KDP. Therefore queries never get resolved, things don’t get published and authors feel like banging their head against the wall. Very bizarre that it seems they don’t have human beings monitoring and responding on their customer service emails. At the bottom of every email response was an Asian name but I felt it was a fake name as the email was clearly a system generated one. When I went back to them a second time I got yet another generic email response saying they had terminated my account and I would never be able to set up another account on Amazon KDP. I read the terms and could not identify anything I had done wrong, and they were unable to provide me a reason. When I emailed asking what the violation was specifically, yet another generic email saying they had terminated my account and asking me to refer to the Ts & Cs. Out of the blue this week they terminated my account saying that I had breached their Ts & Cs. So waiting, waiting and waiting then nothing but frustration and being kept in the dark. The turnaround times are a sham also, it says 72 hours review process for self published paperbacks yet I was waiting over two weeks with items in review for them to get sent back to draft with no explanation or just a generic email which didn’t help at all.

When I emailed asking for some guidance to what I could do to get them approved, instead of help I got the same generic auto response every time which never actually pointed to any specific issue. I wasted over two months trying to publish a number of low content books which were stuck in review and kept getting rejected with no explanation.

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Many emails and escalations later, they maintain that the crappy books were 'within acceptable variance.' I am pulling my four books and movie from Amazon.Ī ridiculous company run by robots who send out generic email responses to every query.

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I asked further why, when the issue was clear, and was then told it was my fault for poorly done files, despite the fact that 22 books plus 4 proofs all printed as expected. Three weeks into their 'investigation,' I asked what was taking so long, and very shortly afterward was told that there was 'no error' and 8 books would not be reprinted. A look at the print date and location at the back of the books showed that not only were these 30 books printed at a different location than the proofs, but the 8 crappy books were printed on a different day than the rest. When I received them, 8 were unuseable, as the contrast on all photos was way to dark and muddy. When I finally published, I ordered 30 author copies. After the second one, all photos in the book printed as expected. I ordered 4 or 5 proofs as I prepped my third book for punlishing with kdp.

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