Amazon Lockout

[R. Richard]

Sometime back, I found that I couldn't access my Amazon ebook account and the associated sales record. I remembered my UserID and Password, but Amazon insisted on verification via an email account that I hadn't used for years.
After a bit of groveling, I managed to get a link where I could send then my passport image and I'm back in my Amazon ebook account.
It takes a while, but don't give up.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Well, I'm really thinking about deleting my Amazon account. Oh and I hope the push Bezo's out of the capsule.

 

[R. Richard]

Despite the aggravation, Amazon is a good sales outlet, at least for me.

 

[lovecraft68]

Despite the aggravation, Amazon is a good sales outlet, at least for me.

If amazon ever does what they desperately want to, ban all indy authors, especially erotica, platforms that sell erotica like Smashwords and others will go through the roof.

 

[gordo12]

If amazon ever does what they desperately want to, ban all indy authors, especially erotica, platforms that sell erotica like Smashwords and others will go through the roof.

Do you really think Amazon wants to ban one of their most profitable areas? The books are legal, and there are many laws regarding redlining and restraint of trade that make me suspect that would be a foolish move.

The garden wall kind of marketing (apple app store etc.) should be disappearing. I was reading yesterday about the new Windows 11. There were no details included in this, but it apparently will include the ability for creators to accept tips from buyers. How it will work, I have no idea, but it seems like an interesting development.

 

[lovecraft68]

Do you really think Amazon wants to ban one of their most profitable areas? The books are legal, and there are many laws regarding redlining and restraint of trade that make me suspect that would be a foolish move.

The garden wall kind of marketing (apple app store etc.) should be disappearing. I was reading yesterday about the new Windows 11. There were no details included in this, but it apparently will include the ability for creators to accept tips from buyers. How it will work, I have no idea, but it seems like an interesting development.

Do they? Maybe/maybe not. Keep in mind, profit on e-books doesn't really matter that much to a trillion dollar company.

But the real motivation to ditch us is the big six. Remember, the big publishers wanted nothing to do with kindle and e-books, thought it was a joke, so amazon opened it up to indy authors who literally built that platform.

Then the big publishers wanted in, but its not enough for them to be in, they want the indy's gone because they take much needed money from struggling authors like King and Rice and Clancy etc...

Now Amazon does realize they would receive tremendous backlash if they eliminated indy authors...so what they have done, especially with erotica, is keep screwing authors and changing rules and squeezing them to try to frustrate them into quitting.

Now, you said legal, well here's the funny thing when it comes to erotica. Amazon says in its TOS they don't want pornographic material yet has tens of thousands of erotic e-books. But they constantly ban a book even if there's countless books like it citing that rule and you can't do anything about it.(you know like Laurel with her bullshit fake rules that are imposed by whim)

Technically Amazon could delete every erotic e-book citing their TOS and be within legal limits to do so, not to mention is anyone going to defend erotic material? Any politician? Hell no, not to mention amazon will just cut them all checks like they always do.

My mentality is any month I make some money and still have an account is a bonus. Every e-book that gets through I think is a win, and at some point I expect any book to be banned for any reason at any time.

Only reason I haven't bailed is I won't give them the satisfaction, which is also the same reason I've never completely stopped having a presence on here, pissing off the people who hate me has its rewards.

 

[gordo12]

And yet, how interesting is this. My Amazon email today included two hotwife erotica books. There were only 4 books and two of them were erotic.

Hotwife Erotica - The Magician's...
by Raven Merlot
Emily has a shameful secret. She's in love, in LUST, with a corny stage magician. It's childish and naïve, but she would do anything to sleep with that man. It's a secret, a passing fascination, nothing...

Hotwife Erotica - Stuck in a Rut:...
by Raven Merlot
I'm a fan of unconventional couples therapy!Daisy and Mack’s marriage is in a slump. She’s twenty-nine and he’s just a few years older, yet they’re already living like an old married couple. When she...

Not my genre btw but these were also KU books.

 

[lovecraft68]

And yet, how interesting is this. My Amazon email today included two hotwife erotica books. There were only 4 books and two of them were erotic.

Hotwife Erotica - The Magician's...
by Raven Merlot
Emily has a shameful secret. She's in love, in LUST, with a corny stage magician. It's childish and naïve, but she would do anything to sleep with that man. It's a secret, a passing fascination, nothing...

Hotwife Erotica - Stuck in a Rut:...
by Raven Merlot
I'm a fan of unconventional couples therapy!Daisy and Mack’s marriage is in a slump. She’s twenty-nine and he’s just a few years older, yet they’re already living like an old married couple. When she...

Not my genre btw but these were also KU books.

That's why they're being pushed, its because they're enlisted in amazon's exclusive scam program....this is one part of the trust suits coming at them, that authors who refuse to join their programs get buried while KU authors who are giving their books away for pennies on the dollar and can't sell anywhere else for 90 days get the limelight.

I've been selling on amazon for 9 years and have gone through several witch hunts and outright kicks in the balls....used to make $1200 a month on maybe 35 titles, now make $500ish a month on well over a hundred.

So, trust me on this one.

 

[gordo12]

So, trust me on this one.

Oh, I do. I know you have experience with this. I have a question, but it's probably too nosy. I'll pm it to you instead.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Despite the aggravation, Amazon is a good sales outlet, at least for me.

If amazon ever does what they desperately want to, ban all indy authors, especially erotica, platforms that sell erotica like Smashwords and others will go through the roof.

My sales at Amazon are pitiful to non-excitant.

Now over a Smashwords and their Channels, I'm doing fairly well.

 

[R. Richard]

My sales at Amazon and Smashwords run about the same, over time.