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Originally Posted by GeoffR
That sort of stuff is endemic on Amazon, they have had years to fix it but have proven to be utterly incompetent.
Finally time for me to close my Amazon account I think. The scammers and the sheer quantity of self-published garbage have made the site useless for finding books anyway, so it is not like I will be missing anything.
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I think this is going to happen increasingly unless they fix things. Having said that, there is still a lot of great stuff on KU, but that will not continue to be the case as it seems they are already losing authors. This will only accelerate if they don't finally take this seriously. KU have been so successful Amazon is in total control of the pool of funds. This is combined with little or no transparency. It has worked because authors have by and large trusted Amazon to do the right thing and in general have been making money. This is why it is so hard to understand why these issues have been dealt with so badly. If Amazon continues to betray the trust that its authors have placed in it before long KU will be almost exclusively the province of the scammers, and won't last long thereafter.
I expect better from Amazon, particularly when it involves them acting in their own interests.