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My wife and I published our first book together; it has been an awful experience. I have published 4 books with KDP before now, and my experience is that it takes less than 48 hours to get a book live. In this case, however, we published the hardcover on 3 June 2022 and one month later, it is still stuck in review. It has been difficult getting someone on the phone that will provide actual answers. Their support team maintains that it is a technical issue, an issue that has been ongoing for one month. It is very sad that people who pre-ordered the book in May continue to wait to receive a copy. This has impacted our marketing efforts and the buzz created at the book launch has now gone down. It is so sad to see that Amazon is not providing adequate support for self-publishing authors and I am very appalled at this service.

I DO NOT RECOMMENDED. COMPANY SUCKS. 😠 Whatever you do, go somewhere else. This is NOT WORTH YOUR TIME.

Amazon KDP Deutschland Die größte Katastrophe ist aber in meinen Augen die Einrichtung. Der ganze Prozess ergibt teilweise überhaupt keinen Sinn. Wenn ich das Manusskript hochlade zeigt er mir einen Fehler an. Diesen behebe ich dann in Word und das Programm sagt mir beim nächsten Uploadprozess, dass dieser Fehler weiterhin existiert, obwohl er in der Datei nicht mehr vorhanden ist. Könnte vor Wut exllodieren, da das Programm die Datei einfach nicht überschreibt und die alte beibehält. So geht es von Anfang bis Ende. 1 Stern ist noch zu wenig. Für so einen Weltkonzern einfach nur peinlich. Taschenbuch: Die Qualität ist schlecht. Beim Taschenbuch ist das Cover zu dünn. Somit wirkt das Buch billig und nicht wertig. Die Auflösung des Buchcovers ist beim Druck nicht hoch genug, so wirkt das Foto auf dem Cover ausgewaschen. Die Schwarzweißfotos im inneren sind auch nicht hochwertig genug. Die Auflösung ist zu gering. Hardcover: Die Auflösung des Buchcovers ist beim Druck nicht hoch genug, so wirkt das Foto auf dem Cover ausgewaschen. Die Farbe ist im gegensatz zum Taschenbuch nicht identisch. In meinem Fall sieht der Druck eher Orange als Kupferfarben aus. Das Buch hat auch nicht die typische Form eines Hardcovers. Es fehlt der innner und äußere Bogen. Die Schwarzweißfotos im inneren sind auch nicht hochwertig genug. Die Auflösung ist zu gering.

Authors beware. I have published six books on KDP. Easy process, listed on Amazon, good, not great, but good sales. But now a change. Those who review your manuscript for publishing have become dictatorial. Case in point, I recently published a manuscript as a print book, submitted it and was approved. The book went live and is already selling. Then I elected to do an E-book of the same manuscript. Submitted it and got a message from the reviewer that he would not approve the E-book for publication because, wait for it, the content was to similar to that of the print book. Try as I may this reviewer would not accept the fact that it was indeed the same book only in E-book form. I tried to appeal his decision and all communication with the team was cut off. Instead, they blocked my E-book so I cannot do anything with it. It is still there on my bookshelf, just sitting there frozen in place by the all-powerful, do not dare question my decision, review team. This happened once before and thankfully I found someone in the review process who had some common sense and reversed the decision. but, that hum, that tone is still there, don't question us or we will block you.

If you publish your book via a company and that company go out of business, you cannot ever update it or your information. Amazon KDP are very unhelpful and just cut and paste generic responses. AUTHORS BEWARE.

Authors beware! The recent jump in negative reviews are accurate. Something very wrong is going on at Amazon and kdp. I've sold many books on Amazon for many years without problems. Their customer service has always been helpful. Not anymore. For some unknown reason, KDP informed me that I was violating copyright rules because I rewrote one of MY books, with new formatting and a new cover. I owned ALL copyrights to this previous book and just wanted to make it better. I showed them all the evidence needed, yet they still robotically told me, without showing me any of their evidence, that I had violated copyright rules. I have every right to redo my book! When I again showed them my copyrights, then they changed their story, saying I had two accounts! I did not have two publishing accounts. As also stated in some of the negative reviews, KDP is fabricating lies to close down author accounts, who have done nothing wrong. Why? I don't know, but maybe they are cutting costs because it is expensive to keep authors who aren't bestsellers? Or more probable, since they are now allowing big publishing houses to advertise their books for far more revenue for KDP, did these houses work a deal to get rid of indie authors? I do know that since CEO Jeff Bezos left, Amazon is not the great company it once was, and it seems its demise may come sooner than later. SO PLEASE, if you are planning on publishing an indie book on KDP– stop! There is something seriously wrong happening at KDP. Wait until there is an investigation or class-action lawsuit to bring out the truth into why KDP is suddenly making up lies to close down author's accounts who have done nothing wrong, stealing their royalties, and never allowing them to publish again. There are other places to distribute books, which may be more expensive, but at least I doubt they will fabricate lies, steal your royalties, and then shut down your account!

Not worthy of spending creative time with KDP Amazon.

SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!! My book was supposed to be taken down a couple of years ago, and when i searched for it i couldn’t find it so i thought it had been. Turns out they never took it down, they were still selling it and i was getting zero royalties. I only found out my book was still up because someone on social media reached out to me that they’d purchased one. I reached out to KDP and for the last month have been getting the run around and pushed off. They still have not paid me royalties and i doubt they ever will. Worst decision i ever made was doing anything with them. And their fees are out of hand. I’m supposed to get only $8 on a $20 book … 🤦🏻‍♀️ … run from this scam company … run far and fast