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Originally Posted by Mistyfarm
Ummm ……
I really don’t need to say too much more surely??
OK then, if you insist……So if I publish my secret Deconstructed Vegemite and Avocado Crumpet recipe ….. and it becomes an Amazon best seller overnight, selling 5,000 copies - I’ve earned a King’s Ransom sum of $23.30c (before tax) …. Woohoo! How much to cut that cheque?
And thanks for the link, it all adds to the cause.
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Ah...but notice that the author who published those two recipes you posted has *many* recipes. If someone finds a recipe they like by that one author, they will probably look at others by that author, and download them, as well. That's how they make money. Also, remember that once an author puts up one of these "books", they don't have to do anything else, except wait for the checks.
For a while, authors were publishing small pieces of books in KU and getting paid by the piece, then publishing the whole book later and getting paid for that, as well. There are many ways for authors to scam KU, and Amazon is constantly tweaking and trying to stop the scams.
One of the scams that is prevalent now is to hire someone on fiver to page through your books to the end so that you get paid. Amazon has set up an algorithm to search for that behavior, and apparently that is what you got caught in. We all understand that this is NOT what you were doing, but...unfortunately the automated algorithm kept getting triggered by the way you were doing your search.
Shari