Amazon KDP Terminates Your Account for THIS...

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Dale lists ways KDP can suspend or terminate an account, some obvious and some less so. He warns against abusing print price matching: after a drastic price rise, e.g. from $9.99 to $49.99, Amazon may still price-match the old lower price while paying the higher royalty, a loophole he says people tested on CreateSpace and lost accounts for. Other violations covered are having two accounts for one person (multiple pen names are allowed under one account), illegal or infringing content including copying web content, article spinning and mosaic plagiarism, and offensive content including covers — he says a racy erotica cover with implied nudity got one of his books blocked. He also covers duplicate content, especially reused low-content interiors, manipulating page reads, poor quality driven by customer complaints, and bribing readers for reviews. He recounts that he himself was suspended in early 2016 for a ‘10x method’ that put a front-of-book link to the back to register page reads. Finally, he notes KDP’s terms allow termination at any time for any reason, with lawsuits required to be brought in Washington state.

Key takeaways

• Use only one KDP account per person; multiple pen names and content types can live under that single account
• Do not drastically raise a print book price to exploit price matching — Dale says Amazon pays the matched royalty while charging the lower price, and testing this got accounts suspended or terminated
• Avoid all plagiarism forms Dale names: copy-pasting, article spinning, and mosaic plagiarism, plus duplicate interiors for low-content books
• Do not manipulate page reads, including front-to-back links or paying people to flip through pages — Dale says this got his own account suspended in early 2016
• Do not bribe readers for reviews with gifts or prizes, and invest in editing, because repeated poor-quality complaints can cost the book or account

Episode details: published August 24, 2022 · 11:11 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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