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Originally Posted by Hitch
My ponderment is, how does that possibly work? Obviously, the tricked reader will return the book to Amazon, and tell them why. Payment isn't made instantaneously to the scammer, so...I can only assume that the entire thing is contingent upon the scammees (the readers) NOT reporting the scamming book to Amazon, AND, having received it via KU, so that the scammer gets the payment from KU on pages read.
Hitch
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it was actually quite clever, in a thieving sort of way. As I recall ( book is long since returned) on an actual kindle you saw an "1st page! with a big
click here to go to the guide. and you can't actually navigate to the 200 + pages of crud in between. that stuff is not in the TOC But scroll up/down in Kindle for PC or get it into Calibre editor & the scam is revealed.
the entire game guide is one html page, the padding was many many other html pages
as for "return the book" folks are not going to bother return a book that cost them nothing to read via KU [ i did leave a blistering review] so scammer wins. via the link I posted there are brags from scammers of earning $1000s per month from Amazon via these scams and you tube videos from scammers teaching other scammers how to do it.
consider also that scammers can repeatedly " read" their own books on throw away KU trial accounts, to ramp up payments even more.
It left me with a sick feeling of having helped finance a nasty trick & I will not be rejoining KU any time soon. It is nasty because KU is a finite pot, so what the scammers suck out reduces the payout to genuine honest authors
there are other scams now running involving keyword stuffing and " cliffs notes" type books masquerading as the actual novels they rip off
from the link previously posted:
Amazon’s continued “fix” to these problems are like putting a Band-Aid on a bleeding artery. Because guys like Dave Koziel aren’t just making money off Amazon. He’s making money off selling this method to other scammers and telling them how to make money scamming, too. And the more they scam, the more money they take out of the “pot.”
Check this link out. Apparently a 15-year-old mentee of Dave Koziel made $64,000 in a month. That’s not a typo.
Do I think this kid wrote all those words? Not if he’s following Dave’s advice, he’s not.
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Quoted on those images, Dave Koziel says: “A screen shot I got earlier from my mentee and coaching student @justin8600 For those of you who don’t know what this is it’s a report from Amazon that shows you your actual royalty payments from the Kindle store. Take a close look at these numbers and you’ll see how much money he is actually getting paid this month from Amazon. Did I mention he’s only 15? A lot of you may look at this and think it’s fake. How can a 15 year old possibly make $70,000+ in a month online from selling ebooks on Amazon? The world is changing and fast. ...”