Ah, Amazon!

I haven’t been able to sell hardly anya copies, but then there are the “resellers” of my work.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst…

I’ve self published three books on Amazon so far (my first collection of Short Stories, and then two Novels adapted from my already written screenplays), starting in 2021. I have made all of $30 on my books in the last four years — that means I’ve sold like two paperbacks, and maybe a couple of e-books.) But I have no real way of knowing how many have sold. Why? Do they tell us the real numbers of sales? Probably not.

And there there are the “resellers” of my books (and most likely, yours too), who ‘live’ on each of the pages for each book of mine. “Resellers” who have most likely pirated copies of MY work — if I’m not selling any books, then how are there “used” copies that a “reseller” is selling?

I’m taking my books down off of the Big A soon, because it was a waste of effort, and a resultant IP Theft of my work. The idea that there are ‘authors’ who are making tens of thoousands of dollars off of their work on Amazon, is to me, ridiculous (and that’s leaving off all of the expletives that I would very mush like to use).

I did not have the hundreds (thousands?) of dollars to be constantly doing Amazon ads to boost my sales. And then the return rate on…