Publisher's Synopsis
Everybody knows that your business will be severely punished if you decide to mess with Amazon, even if you are 100% right. I was blocked perhaps because of the same reason this next guy was blocked: I THINK what I "did wrong" was to use what they consider "widely available facts" which are a lot of facts about the topic I was writing about. The creativity I add comes from the presentation not the facts. Here is an analogy I got on the Internet: "IF YOU WRITE ABOUT THE MONA LISA YOU WILL ALSO NEED WIDELY AVAILABLE PICTURES BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE ONLY ONES AVAILABLE AT ALL!!! THE LOUVRE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO TAKE YOUR OWN PICTURES, SO NO BOOKS ABOUT THE MONA LISA Try dealing with an Amazon reviewer who must have a quota for rejected (blocked) manuscripts. They are very matter of fact and they will not tell you specifically what is wrong with your submission. Then, you make an argument and if they respond at all, they do not address the points you make. Instead they tell you that the book will be blocked in five days after their evaluation.Some authors like me publish their books only on Amazon. After eight books being blocked this year alone because I dared write about the COVID-19, I'm asking: is it possible for me to publish my books without using Amazon at all? Well, maybe! I am exploring Ingram and others. I once printed and sold my own books and also shipped them but it was a lot of work. I like writing better.Writing eight books that may take a month apiece, and have Amazon block them because (A) they were about COVID, or (B) because they contained facts that were also on the Internet but they would not give page or chapter references.Why do they block my books? I am thinking maybe because I write about conservative topics. Am I ideologically censored? They do not really tell me. They have no phone number. I have only the option of sending emails that often they ignore and then poof, I have a blocked book. They can say whatever they want and there's no accountability. But, it hurts my business taking the time to argue with them when all I was looking for was a company to print and sell my books. I do my own copyediting. What gives them the right to get into my content? See the rest of this book to see how I challenged them on this. Should I go to court or report them to the FTC? Hmmm!
