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What Has Your Name Attached?
Posted 29th April 2011 at 10:52 AM by impact-productions
I've seen a few blog posts and forum posts where people have been bemoaning the publication of their materials on the Kindle recently, and this reminded me of an incident that happened to me.
A while ago, I put together a product for giveaway events. This was a reasonable quality PLR product (with unrestricted rights) which I did a bit of work with, added a new cover and then listed on the giveaway events sites with PLR.
It got me a few signups, although nothing out of the ordinary.
One thing I was careful to do when putting this together was to list this as 'Thom Lancaster presents' Product X, rather than assigning myself as the author. This was mainly due to branding. I wanted to make sure I was visible on the product, but not be listed as the author (as I wasn't the author).
It rather surprised me when I started putting books up on Amazon to see that that product had been listed there, only this time I was clearly listed as the author of the product.
Nowhere in the PLR did it say I was the author, and, if anything, this was rather dishonest.
Unfortunately, this is a big of a grey area as to what controls there are available to change a listing of a book of yours. I've got around this slightly by creating an Amazon author page, which doesn't list this book (you can see my Amazon author page here).
Of course, a search will still bring up the other book as well.
I think it's an area that Amazon does need to address in its publication process. With more and more books being published, this will be an increasingly widespead problem.
I do recommend that everyone who releases any kind of product with rights, keeps some kind of eye open for what is happening with them. I just like to do occasional searches for myself and my products, but you could set up a Google Alert.
Thinking carefully of what rights to assign to each product would definitely help as well.
Thom
A while ago, I put together a product for giveaway events. This was a reasonable quality PLR product (with unrestricted rights) which I did a bit of work with, added a new cover and then listed on the giveaway events sites with PLR.
It got me a few signups, although nothing out of the ordinary.
One thing I was careful to do when putting this together was to list this as 'Thom Lancaster presents' Product X, rather than assigning myself as the author. This was mainly due to branding. I wanted to make sure I was visible on the product, but not be listed as the author (as I wasn't the author).
It rather surprised me when I started putting books up on Amazon to see that that product had been listed there, only this time I was clearly listed as the author of the product.
Nowhere in the PLR did it say I was the author, and, if anything, this was rather dishonest.
Unfortunately, this is a big of a grey area as to what controls there are available to change a listing of a book of yours. I've got around this slightly by creating an Amazon author page, which doesn't list this book (you can see my Amazon author page here).
Of course, a search will still bring up the other book as well.
I think it's an area that Amazon does need to address in its publication process. With more and more books being published, this will be an increasingly widespead problem.
I do recommend that everyone who releases any kind of product with rights, keeps some kind of eye open for what is happening with them. I just like to do occasional searches for myself and my products, but you could set up a Google Alert.
Thinking carefully of what rights to assign to each product would definitely help as well.
Thom
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