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Amazon Has Filed Suit To Stop The Six-Figure âBook Stuffingâ Kindle Scam
Some self-publishers slip entire books into the back of their latest ebook, taking a larger chunk of that monthâs royalty fund as a result â as much as $100,000 per month.
Last Tuesday, an Amazon subsidiary filed suit in federal court seeking to confirm an arbitration award against British book publisher Jake Dryan and his companies, relating to claims that the publisherâs companies abused Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), the Amazon self-publishing program. According to Amazon Digital Services LLCâs petition, Law360 reports, the self-publisher breached Amazonâs terms by using bots or âclickfarmsâ to inflate page views and manipulate their ranking. However, the petition also identified another practice in violation of Kindleâs terms: The act of âcombining selections of works they had already published into purportedly new books.â Itâs a much-hated move called âbook stuffingâ by the self-publishing community, and this suit is the first indication ofâŠ
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