I’ve been quiet about Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited Program, and self-publishing in general, for several years. Part of me just gave up. (It really does feel good when you stop banging your head against a wall!) I’m an old cynic about Amazon now, I guess. They have been squeezing authors, paying us less and less, since the program started. Personally, I’ve… Read More
ScAmazon 2 – Mammoth Consequences: The Digital Sweatshop
About a month ago, I did a post about the scams that are rocking the self-publishing world on Amazon. I pointed to the scam Kindle internet marketing course that Dave Koziel was doing, and the 15-year-old German kid who made 130K using his methods. Today, I saw a video from Dave Koziel on YouTube. He apparently felt it necessary to… Read More
SCAMAZON – Amazon “Kindle Unlimited” Scammers Netting Millions
How are scammers making millions off Amazon? (And off any author enrolled in Amazon’s KDP Select program?) It’s easy. So say digital entrepreneurs scammers like Dave Koziel – who admits to outsourcing his material, he’s not an actual writer or anything. You see, all you have to do it just upload “books” stuffed to the gills with anything, even unrelated… Read More