Anyone successful at getting Kindle account re-instated?

12 years ago

My account has also been terminated due to the information being freely available on the web. They were written 100% by me from my own experiences, so I have no idea what they are talking about. I was selling more than 2 a day with no refunds... I'm also waiting for a reply from them.

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nursewriter 12 years ago

That is what they said in my email...the information was freely available on the web. I did not get a warning email. If they had an issue with one of my books all they had to do was contact me and I would have taken care of it.

I have contacted them but have little hopes of hearing back.

It is a shame because I loved publishing on Kindle. It is a great platform for self-publishing... but I guess now I will have to publish my books by myself. Heck, this was the way it was done before Kindle came along.

Keep me informed if you hear anything back from them.
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Dean Shainin

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ian McConnell

My account has also been terminated due to the information being freely available on the web. They were written 100% by me from my own experiences, so I have no idea what they are talking about. I was selling more than 2 a day with no refunds... I'm also waiting for a reply from them.

Do you mind me asking which niche you were in?

Or maybe there were several niches you were in?

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nursewriter 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dean Shainin

Do you mind me asking which niche you were in?

Or maybe there were several niches you were in?

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Hey Dean,

I had two original books in the health niche. The third book I had was in gardening....I think that was the one they did not like because it was re-written from PLR. I had no problem pulling that book off even though it was my best seller. But they did not give me a chance to amend the problem.
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Ian McConnell 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dean Shainin

Do you mind me asking which niche you were in?

Or maybe there were several niches you were in?

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It was model trains and content 100% written by me.
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MP80

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ian McConnell

My account has also been terminated due to the information being freely available on the web. They were written 100% by me from my own experiences, so I have no idea what they are talking about. I was selling more than 2 a day with no refunds... I'm also waiting for a reply from them.

Ian,

Thanks for sharing your story. Just wondering if you used any of your book's content on a website somewhere? Apparently KDP select states that you may use a reasonable amount of the content for promotion, say 10%. If you used more than this, perhaps it triggered a few red flags?

I had been thinking of using some of my [original] blog posts in a Kindle ebook, but am now wondering if this is such a good idea...

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Ian McConnell

12 years ago

Originally Posted by MP80

Ian,

Thanks for sharing your story. Just wondering if you used any of your book's content on a website somewhere? Apparently KDP select states that you may use a reasonable amount of the content for promotion, say 10%. If you used more than this, perhaps it triggered a few red flags?

I had been thinking of using some of my [original] blog posts in a Kindle ebook, but am now wondering if this is such a good idea...

I have been told that there are people out there buying Kindle books and using the content for their own websites. This then triggers the Kindle violation of the content being freely available on the web.

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batchos

12 years ago

Gosh, I never thought about that until you mentioned it, and it makes more than cents for the profiteers. In some cases they get the book free.

There's no end to this madness, or is it just greed funneled by laziness.

So the question is: how can publishers protect themselves from this happening to them?

Originally Posted by Ian McConnell

I have been told that there are people out there buying Kindle books and using the content for their own websites. This then triggers the Kindle violation of the content being freely available on the web.

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remodeler

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ian McConnell

I have been told that there are people out there buying Kindle books and using the content for their own websites. This then triggers the Kindle violation of the content being freely available on the web.

Not good. What's to prevent a competitor from deliberately posting up content from your book, which in turn could get your acct terminated?

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NickVCover

12 years ago

Have you tried entering a full paragraph from your ebook into Google and searching on it? That way you may be able to tell who is poaching the content at least.

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tpw

12 years ago

Originally Posted by NickVCover

Have you tried entering a full paragraph from your ebook into Google and searching on it? That way you may be able to tell who is poaching the content at least.

You can only search up to ten words in Google, at a time. Do the search this way with your passage between quotes.

I hear you can be re-instated. You need to send an email to the Kindle author help and wait about one week to hear back from them. They want you to promise never to break their TOS again.

They have pulled several accounts for publishing PLR, even after the PLR books had been removed from their system. This makes me believe that once the warning is issued that their bots will automatically disable your account at the appointed time. Then, a human will check into whether you have tried to fix the problem or to contact them.

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Ian McConnell

12 years ago

nursewriter, I haven't heard anything yet. But, a Kindle publishing guru has advised (on a webinar) that we should always have a few different Kindle accounts to get around this. It seems to be common that accounts get shut down, even though the material is completely unique and no reason is ever provided. It also looks like getting Amazon to reinstate an account is a lost cause.

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nubchai

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ian McConnell

nursewriter, I haven't heard anything yet. But, a Kindle publishing guru has advised (on a webinar) that we should always have a few different Kindle accounts to get around this. It seems to be common that accounts get shut down, even though the material is completely unique and no reason is ever provided. It also looks like getting Amazon to reinstate an account is a lost cause.

If you read the Kindle TOS it does say 1 account per person and you have to provide a SSN. You could form an LLC and get one additional account. Not sure how you would get more than that unless you're married and repeat the above approach with your spouse.

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nursewriter 12 years ago

Thanks for the info...I have been reading the Kindle boards and there have been a lot of people getting accounts terminated. Some were at fault while others have stated they got no warning or good reason...Kindle just did not like their content.

I sent Amazon an email and told them I would be willing to remove the offending book and I would even sign a personal publisher agreement to never submit content that was based on PLR ever again...They promptly emailed me back saying NO.....you do not get a second chance.

I hope Amazon is not turning into another Ebay. Some people are speculating Amazon is trying to get rid of the little people on Kindle and cater only to the ones who bring in massive sales....I dont know if this is true or not. People can and will say anything.
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Randall Magwood

12 years ago

I wouldn't get your hopes up with getting anything re-instated from Amazon. That's just how they roll. Check this out:

Selling On Amazon.com Sucks !

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Mary Schiller

12 years ago

This is all pretty scary, frankly. I'm wondering if it's just safer to sell ebooks only from my own website. You still run the risk of an unscrupulous person plagiarizing it -- but at least you wouldn't be in trouble with Amazon. Yikes.

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Tadresources

12 years ago

It annoys me when I hear the excuse "the information is available freely online". Hell, ALL information is free online practically. This should make almost every non-fiction book unsellable by their standards. The point is that you took the time to research this info and put it into one easy to read resources. Not every one wants to sit and research this stuff for days on end, I think people like you do a great service and should be rewarded for it.