Agony + Ecstasy

Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing  has benefited many authors, but now many small scale authors are beginning to suffer from Amazon randomly cancelling their accounts. Amazon instead of deleting the accounts of click farm scammers, is removing the publishing accounts accounts of hundreds, maybe thousands of small self-published authors who, at one time or another, actually had a book or two bought by a scammer click-farm account. Some people I know who have had this unfair deletion of their accounts and books by the retailer have despaired and quit writing and publishing altogether.  Despair This causes me sincere frustration and I’ll share with you my reasons why.  Part the First:  Over the past 50 years at least professional publishers worldwide have packaged and sold books by millions of authors in different ways depending on where in the world the sale of the books were made. Book sales areas and pricing were tightly controlled.  Many books availabl...