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I've been officially banned for one year! WHY?*SIGH!* Amazon is punishing me for violating their contract and not allowing me to do any kindle deals or added features as a result from this. Ok, first off... what the hell? What did I do? They never give you an explanation as to why. I've talked to other authors who went through the same thing and they said they got kicked out for minor infractions too.
Seriously? Well, I had to do some back peddling into why this happened (on my own... no help from the Amazon gods), turns out I accidentally published an ebook title on Draft2Digital and forgot not to exclude the Kindle distribution. That was it. So, because that happened, and since that queried their way.... that's an instant punishment for "violating" their policy on ebook rights. WOW.... but I'm the damn author and owner of this book. They don't care. It's Jeff Bezo's way or none at all. So glad I was able to put him into space... maybe next time, someone can sabotage the rocket and send him on his way PERMANENTLY! I wish I could say that it actually surprised me that this would happen, but no, I kinda had a feeling this was coming. Authors (self published ones at that) are having a tough time trying to compete with the big trade publishers who are trying to re-dominate their presence in the marketplace. Self Pubs exploded because of Amazon and were taking their revenue (and clients) away. What? You mean you want to make this on your own and get the full chunk of the profits? How dare you selfish author and rights holder of the book! Yeah... that's what it's like. So now there's a swinging shift in the publishing biz now. The Bezos Empire of Amazon is slowly starting to swing back towards favouring the big trade publishers again. Making it harder for self publishers (like me) to get noticed in the vast oceanic marketplace that is Amazon Distributing. How did they become the single force on the planet for all books to flow to? I think they've gotten too powerful and some other distributor needs to challenge this ASAP. I know, I know... "but Jeff... you're still publishing with them?" Yeah, you can't help not to do so. They are the mega-corp all must yield to eventually. So while I may bitch and moan about the slapped hand I got, I will have to take it like a man and wait out my time. But... Since they won't let me continue on that platform, it gives me the chance to search for other competitors to saddle up with. I mean, if amazon can't over look one small error... then it's time to switch to one that won't be as constrictive. I'll get back to you on that. For now though, you can still purchase the books of mine, you just can read them for free in Kindle Unlimited. And if I want to put the book on sale on amazon, I have to lower the price as far as it will allow me to do so. But, like I said, not a great option for me. Anyways, I will get through this. And because of this, I may have to switch my books to a better, more friendlier self publishing distributor to work with. Take care for now. Jeff W.
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