What next and who’s next?
There’s this indie author I know a little bit from the Kboards.com forum. Her name is Pauline Creeden, and she’s an ordinary midlister, like so many of us. I remember PMing her some time ago and gushing about how particularly beautiful one of her book covers is — the one for Chronicles of Steele: Raven.
Here, I’ll include an image. Gorgeous, eh?
Anyway, today I tuned in to Kboards and noticed that Pauline had started a thread. It contained what’s surely the worst news possible for an indie author: Amazon had closed her publishing account. All her ebooks had been taken off sale. Permanently. Here’s the email she got from Amazon:
We are reaching out to you because we have detected that borrows for your books are originating from systematically generated accounts. While we support the legitimate efforts of our publishers to promote their books, attempting to manipulate…
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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Infuriating! To not give any warning or comprehensive explanation is ignoble and smacks of tyranny. Amazon has gone from dictatorial to downright fascist.
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Well, I never joined Kindle Unlimited – too complicated for me! Ha, ha! Besides, I want to keep on publishing on Smashwords, so I can’t comply with any of Amazon’s restrictive practices. I’m not in this to make money. If I was, I’d be homeless and starving to death.
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That’s TermiteWriter again! I hit the wrong buttons, Chris!
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LOLOL
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😄😄😄
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Scary. :-0
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Indeed Pamela…
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