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Originally Posted by AlanHK
On Youtube I keep seeing ads from a marketer "Sophie Howard" and her amazing methods of selling crap on Amazon to become rich with a few hours of work a week.
As always, if someone knows how to do that, why aren't they just doing it instead of selling seminars telling others how to ...
One of her scams is "selling thousands of ebooks on Amazon a day, without writing a word".
So I guess she is telling other scumbags to take Project Gutenberg books or Wikipedia pages or other public domain text and automatically convert them to Kindle books and sell for $2 or the like.
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This is why when I look for a public domain book on amazon, I have trouble finding the freebie that amazon itself puts out there. She's not the only one doing it. I recently read David Copperfield and it took me a while to find the amazon $0.00 version as there were a bunch that were .99, 1.99 etc. The freebie amazon one was great, even had x-ray enabled. It was just hard to find. It's a free market so I guess they are entitled, but Amazon should do a better job when you search for a classic in showing their freebie first. But they probably get a cut as well, so there's not much incentive I guess.
But there are all sorts of people hawking all sorts of hard to find titles and not just books, music CDs, SACDs, DVDs, BDs, etc. Many used book stores and CD stores put their inventory on amazon to sell as well. My local used CD/DVD store does. I took some old movies in I never watch for trade for some music CDs, they give you about 10 cents a disc, then charge about 4-7 bucks for a music CD. I bought a handful of titles, but just gave away the movies to a thrift store as opposed to trading them in for 10 cents/per disc.