Amazon is Screwing Over Authors and Publishers ONCE AGAIN!
Why in the world would Amazon let people who’d completely used and benefitted from a product “return” it for a full refund? I know why!
Complaints about specific publishers
Author Claims Publisher Stopped Paying Royalties…and Then Released Paperback Edition After Contract Termination – In The News – 11/19/2020
Amazon censors another book…and then changes its mind; Big 5 publishers become 4 as Penguin buys Simon & Schuster; More censorship by Amazon; Can AI distinguish between conspiracy throery and truth?; Amazon gives new workers bonuses and old workers turkey vouchsters; The Los Angeles Times and Tribune Publishing pay $3M settlement after paying white males more than other journalists; Hilton Head magazine company ordered to pay to printer
Tax Refunds of Tate Publishing’s Owners Will Be “Intercepted” by the Oklahoma Attorney General
PLUS: The Oklahoma Attorney General’s files about Tate Publishing have “mysteriously” vanished in the past week! Why?!
URGENT ALERT: Yes, Dog Ear Publishing’s Owner is THIS DUMB!! – …In the News 10/29/2020
MORE: Book sales higher than in the past decade?; “Wealthy” bookstore owner asks customers to save her own store?; Author shares her story about BookWhip Marketing, LLC; Victoria Strauss does NOT recommend EMP Entertainment, A&D Entertainment, nor T.A. Barron’s Once Upon a Villain Flash Fiction Contest; Consumer review of Write Your Best Book / Christina Kaye; Indie bookstores are still struggling and here’s how you can help!; 149-year old Salt Lake Tribune moving from daily to weekly + massive layoffs; and Pay for an ebook from Amazon…but you might lose it later!
“Amazon won’t remove the old listing for my book even though the publisher is out of business!”
“I was able to break the contract before they went out of business. However, my book is still advertised on Amazon Children’s Books, with all of the previous information, pricing, etc…”
9 Reasons NOT to Use BookBaby to Publish Your Book
We were recently contacted by an author who wants to move his book from BookBaby to BookLocker. He says it takes them too long to print and ship a book. We took a look at their current “terms of service” and this is what we found…
MORE COMPLAINTS about AuthorHouse!
Holy Moly! There are some FURIOUS authors posting complaints online about AuthorHouse and their parent company, Author Solutions!
COMPLAINTS about Outskirts Press / OutskirtsPress.com
We compete directly with Outskirts Press. When we reject a manuscript, we never refer those authors to Outskirts Press.
MORE COMPLAINTS about Fast Pencil / Infinity Publishing. And, now they have a website called Opyrus!
When you don’t have the time or money to pay your authors’ royalties…yet you DO have the time and money to create a new website… SHAME ON FASTPENCIL / INFINITY PUBLISHING!
How to Instantly Lose Your Entire Website? Buy Website Design/Hosting Services from a Crappy Publisher!
Dog Ear Publishing author lost his publisher AND the website HE paid for!