In March, he was running a paid promotion on his title Metropolitan (which he originally published with HarperCollins in 1995), but he got a message from Amazon notifying him that the book’s buy button had been yanked until he fixed its formatting. As time has passed, he’s been bringing out-of-print books back into circulation digitally. ![]() That’s a tiny bit of good news in the discouraging tale about hacking a monthly pool of a few million dollars that means a lot to e-book writers but works out to small change for a company that broke $100 billion in revenue for the first time last year.Ĭase in point: Walter Jon Williams has been publishing books since 1984, back when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was still working toward graduation at Princeton. On the bright side, Amazon isn’t spying on Kindle users as they read. But it turns out that the way it works may have created an opportunity for scammers to steal earnings from real writers producing genuine works. Amazon created Kindle Unlimited, a Netflix for books, that’s delivering indie authors revenue and readers.
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