[ryanbhuvam]

After reading about the 'Phillipines', ghostwriters and SPAs earning thousands each year for doing not very much i.e. hoodwinking the readers, I've decided to only purchase books that have had a hard back release. Amazon has set up a way for SPAs to publish paperbacks so even using paperbacks as a filter is no longer viable. I apologize to the genuine authors who are SPAs. One female(?) horror novel writer has had me stumped as to how she could publish so many books in such a short space of time, now I think I know. If you search on google you will find a lot of articles on making money with Amazon by using ghostwriters who will write a book for you (after a chapter list and summary is sent) for $20 plus you can get a cover designed by an agency in the Philippines for $5 and so you have a book ready to go that cost you $25 and was not written by you. It amazed me when I read about it, and made me quite angry too. I guess avoiding anything that is included in Kindle Unlimited may help you with reading genuine authors works. Again, apologies to the SPA genuine authors, but there's just too many scammers that exploit the service.

And I still can't find a definitive list of Amazon's self-published authors - even the top 100 would be useful.