Publishing/Writing: Insights, News, Intrigue

06/18/2011

Is Kindle Self-Publishing Being Spammed To Death?


Keep Spam Out!

Self-publishing spammers are crapping all over Kindle’s self-publishing platform and stinking up its rep!

Kindle needs to hire … dare I say it … a police editor! Hell, why not, the publishing industry has an editor for everything these days … even editors to edit the editors. 

This from Digital Trends by Jeff Hughes :

Spam Storm Clogs the Kindle Self-Publishing Platform

Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing is getting clogged with super cheap low quality spam.

The Kindle’s ebook store has become a new outlet for self-publishing spammers in the past few months, forcing users to wade through a growing number of low-value, subpar content to get to the titles they want. This recent trend may be damaging to Amazon’s push into self-publishing and may even dig into the Kindle’s reputation, hurting the 10 percent of business Citigroup analysts say the product will account for in 2012.

Spammers are exploiting something known as PLR content, or Private Label Rights. Though there is potential for this work to be of high quality, PLR allows someone to grab informational content for free or for very cheap on the internet and reformat it as a digital book. The form of PLR these spammers use tends to be poorly written, generic and lets them put anyone’s name on it, slap a catchy title and churn it out for 99 cents. Amazon then pays out 30 to 70 percent of the revenue.

Sometimes these ebooks will just be stolen content from actual work. Reuters points out a case concerning a New Zealander and her debut historical novel which she found being sold on the platform under a different author’s name. The case was resolved by Amazon’s British team, but it points to a larger issue. Reuters cited Internet marketer Paul Wolfe, who explained that the common tactic involves copying an bestselling ebook and repackaging it with a new title and cover.

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1 Comment »

  1. I found the information very interesting. i have wondered about spammers not only stealing manuscripts, but ideals as well. ideals where they change the charectors names and title, then resale as an original. I write short stories for e-books. Publish American has accepted my last manuscript, ” Listen To What Your Children Say” Not available for sale yet.

    Comment by Sheila Brandon — 07/11/2011 @ 5:16 am | Reply


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