Kindle Books On Amazon Banned for Poor Quality & Plagiarism

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Provenance note: the transcript track for this video is in Arabic (a coherent Arabic rendering of Dale L. Roberts’s English video); this summary is in English. Dale says Amazon is removing Kindle books and closing KDP accounts for poor quality and plagiarism, in the context of a recent global virus outbreak he deliberately does not name. He credits viewers for flagging the problem and cites reporting over the previous two weeks by Slate, Wired, NBC News and others on Amazon removing outbreak-related books and products, alongside sellers price-gouging essentials such as hand sanitizer and toilet paper. He lists five ways publishers were abusing the system: (1) publishing under fake or misleading names, posing as doctors they are not; (2) stolen content copied from news sources and online articles; (3) badly written content rushed out for quick profit, quoting a garbled passage cited by Wired; (4) false claims of cures, which he notes conflicts with Amazon’s content guidelines on products related to human tragedies and natural disasters; and (5) inappropriate categorization — placing books in random categories for better ranking and discoverability. His advice is to report bad books to Amazon, warn friends and family not to trust unknown ‘doctor’ authors, use common sense, and hire a good editor rather than rushing out low-quality work, warning that Amazon can block the book or, at worst, close the KDP account.

Key takeaways

• Amazon was removing Kindle books and could close KDP accounts over outbreak-related books that violated its content guidelines
• Five abuses are named: fake/misleading author identities posing as doctors, stolen content, poorly written content, false cure claims, and inappropriate categorization
• False cure claims are singled out as especially risky because Amazon’s guidelines cover products tied to human tragedies and natural disasters
• Readers and authors should report low-quality or plagiarized books, since some slip through Amazon’s review at scale
• If publishing on a topical subject, provide genuine value, take time, and hire an editor instead of rushing out content for quick profit

Episode details: published March 18, 2020 · 11:23 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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