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Originally Posted by elcreative
This is part of Amazon's contract for publishing eBooks:
3 Term and Termination
The term of this Agreement will begin upon your acceptance of it and will continue until it is terminated by us or by you. We are entitled to terminate this Agreement and your access to your Program account at any time without advance notice to you. You are entitled to terminate at any time by your provision to us of notice in accordance with our then-current procedures for account termination, in which event we will cease selling your Digital Books within 5 business days from the date you provide us notice of termination. We may also suspend your Program account at any time with or without notice to you, for any reason in our discretion. Following termination or suspension, we may fulfill any customer orders for your Digital Books pending as of the date of termination or suspension, and we may continue to maintain digital copies of your Digital Books in order to provide continuing access to or re-downloads of your Digital Books or otherwise support customers who have purchased a Digital Book prior to termination or suspension. The following provisions of this Agreement will survive termination of this Agreement: Sections 1, 3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and any other provisions that, by their nature, are intended to survive. All rights to Digital Books acquired by customers will survive termination.
Bold highlights added by me... this basically states that they can do as they like and may or may not choose to give you reasons. As a set of T&Cs, it may very well stink but surely you read them before getting Amazon to publish your book... and you had the option not to proceed if you objected to these T&Cs...
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1. Amazon did not publish my books. They were published through an independent publisher. Amazon agreed to provide them for sale in exchange for a percentage of the sales price. I have not self-published anything. At all.
2. As regards the rest of it -- so what? their T&C and requirements are so vague as to be meaningless. Hell, the BIBLE violates them, which means they are used solely to cover Amazon's said ass and therefore are worthless. And when the agreement is like that, it cannot be enforced except by whim.
3. And if you still think that matters, my books do NOT violate their T&Cs, even with them being that vague. They are not porn. There is no underage sex, pedophilia or bestiality in them. And they are not geared solely at satisfying one's prurient needs, so Amazon is in violation of its own T&Cs by dumping my books.
4. By doing this, they have damaged not only my work but my reputation. And kitty don't like that BS, so he's on the prowl to scowl and do a lot more than meowl in response.
5. You don't like it? Tough.