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Originally Posted by DNSB
From a recent newsletter, my wife found out that an author whose work she loves has dropped out of Kindle Unlimited. Twice now her books have been found on pirate sites and both times Amazon kicked her out of KU, withheld earnings, etc. She managed to convince them after considerable effort to restore her books to KU and pay out her accumulated earnings on both occasions.
After the second time, she withdrew her books from Kindle Unlimited and is now selling wide including Kobo. On Kobo, she has her books in Kobo Plus so those who wanted a subscription to read her books still have that option. From what she wrote, her earnings have dropped slightly but she no longer has to worry that someone will pirate her next book forcing her to spend hours that could be better spent writing being wasted on fighting Amazon about content being 'freely available on the web'.
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Why does Amazon penalize authors who are at no fault for having their books pirated?