It must be noted, though, that Amazon technically also profits off its catfish:įor every dollar, someone like Pylarinos or Marrocco makes off the Kindle store, Amazon makes $1.86. Perhaps this quote from the Washington Post article will help you understand why Amazon doesn’t move as fast as one would like to think it should. So if it is so easy to spot a Kindle scam, why don’t Amazon react and close down the scammers? It’s manipulating or buying reviews to give these Kindle scam books some credibility. There is no regard whatsoever for quality. But sadly, now it’s the name of a Kindle scam author.Īs the article in the Washington Post explains, it is all about publishing content. Those who have read Atlas Shrugged will recognize this name immediately. In fact, one author, by the name of Dagny Taggart, published 84 books in one year. And that they produce new ebooks at a phenomenal rate.

The article states that non-fiction self-help ebooks are the prime target of these Kindle scams.

How an industry of ‘Amazon entrepreneurs’ pulled off the Internet’s craftiest catfishing scheme. This article in the Washington Post goes into great detail. No, they outsource the time-consuming writing part and simply concentrate on milking the market. It might feel like a kick in the guts to know that there are Kindle scams raking in mountains of money.Īnd they don’t even write the ebooks themselves. All of them are battling away day after day trying to make a go of selling fiction. There are hard-working self-publishing authors out there.

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