The latest news of this saga?
http://johndopp.com/writers/amazon-kindle-spelling-mistakes/
No, Amazon Will Not Penalize Your Book for a Typo
Here we go again…
There’s a change coming at Amazon. You know what that means.
Panic! Share the first poorly-researched blog post you can find! Scream! Rage at Amazon’s cruelty until your fury is spent and you’re left crying into your ice-cold coffee.
And now that we’ve gotten that out of our systems, let’s breathe calmly into our paper bags while we examine the facts.
This week, the Good E-Reader blog announced that “Kindle e-Books will have a warning message if they have spelling mistakes.”
Some authors have taken that headline at face value and assumed the worst: that Amazon will brand any books deemed to have typographic errors — no matter how minor — with a sinister warning label.
The reality is far less dramatic.
The Facts
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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
I’m currently reading a book that needs some serious editing and formatting improvement. Paragraphs are repeated and in places it’s obvious something was left out. This is strange because the author’s first book in this series was meticulously edited. I like the ongoing story line but if the jumbled text continues I will stop reading and return the book — with a complaint. Don’t want to do that but the author needs to clean up his act.
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If possible, you could email the author with your concerns Lyn – that’s what I do 🐵
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I personally see this move by Amazon as a good and positive thing. Let’s face it, there are tons of ebooks out there that are basically unreadable due to no editing. I applaud Amazon on this one.
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As long as they check and verify their algorithm findings before they pull the books Jan…
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I find some new terror at least once a week, Chris. And I thought, a long time ago before I knew better, that once published, we could sit back and relax. Sigh.
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No way Loretta – you’ve got more stories to write (no pressure 😄😄😄)
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That’s hugely relieving. Yes, I’ve seen all the scary posts, so it’s nice to read one which isn’t, although an author I vaguely know was approached by Amazon over some dialect in her book which had been deemed to be an error. Hopefully, that was just a glitch in the system, or caused by some other problem. Anyway, you’ve set my mind at rest – until the next scare story, lol.
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No doubt there will be more to make authors’ hair stand on end Loretta 😃😄
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