Fellow Indie Authors,
Here is the best analysis of Amazon’s new policy regarding editing/formatting issues in independently published work. It’s even more impetus to use an editor. A lot of the rumors and myths are dispelled in this very good analysis.
KINDLE E-BOOKS WILL HAVE ERROR MESSAGES
This rumor has been going around for a week or so. When I first saw this rumor, my first thoughts were:
- Where is the PROOF?
- Why hasn’t Amazon provided any information about this?
- Let’s get more information, preferably from Amazon itself, before we PANIC and WORRY.
This morning I learned that Amazon HAS provided much updated information about quality issues, right on their KDP help pages:
Click here to view the KDP help page describing error messages.
ACCORDING TO AMAZON KDP
A few quotes from this KDP help page are quite illuminating.
The KDP help page includes this quote in the opening paragraph:
- “If readers tell us about a problem they’ve found in your book, we will make sure you know about it.”
- So we see that Amazon will be contacting authors/publishers to notify them about problems that readers have reported.
Note that…
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Author Don Massenzio 
Good summary. I feel like Amazon has become big brother. Since I’ve published my books to Amazon, I’m always looking over my shoulder.
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