My Amazon KDP Account Was TERMINATED… How to NEVER Be Banned

About this video

Despite the title’s claim about his own account being terminated, the transcript itself does not describe that happening: the creator says he built and sold a publishing business and is building a second account, and later clarifies he sold the first account and currently holds one. The video is instead a prevention guide. He argues people who claim they were banned for doing nothing usually broke a rule, and catalogs the main risks: duplicate interiors under new covers, unedited template pages, keyword stuffing in titles, subtitles, or pen names, misleading claims such as fake bonuses or ‘16 books in one’ bundles that are really short chapter collections, irrelevant categories, plagiarism, trademark violations, fake or manipulated reviews, selling unusable low- or no-content books as ebooks, low-quality spam, machine-translated editions, unedited fully AI-written books, and offensive content. He explains the account rule as one KDP account per entity, so a separate LLC with its own tax ID, email, phone, and bank account can legitimately hold another. His unifying test is whether a tactic creates a poor customer experience, and for suspensions he advises replying to KDP immediately and fixing flagged issues.

Key takeaways

• Make every book unique: reusing the same interior with a new cover, or uploading templates unedited, risks a duplicate-content ban
• Keep metadata honest: no keyword-stuffed pen names or subtitles, no irrelevant categories, and no title claims the contents do not deliver
• Never buy or manipulate reviews, copy competitors’ titles or author names, or use trademarked brands; Amazon actively deletes fake reviews per his example
• Respect the one-account-per-entity rule: a second account needs a genuinely separate entity such as an LLC with separate tax ID, email, phone, and bank account
• Use AI and translation tools only with real editing: unedited AI drafts and machine-translated books fall under low-quality spam, and suspensions should be answered and fixed immediately

Episode details: published September 18, 2023 · 17:53 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Sean Dollwet’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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