I want to share this information from Jackie Weger, the founder and leader of eNovel Authors at Work.
I’m happy to be held to high standards, both as an author and an editor. I hope Amazon enforces and uses the new rules properly and doesn’t listen to the trolls out there who leave reviews just to hurt competitors.
P.C. ZICK 
17 responses to “Important: New Rules on Amazon”
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Thanks, Kerry.
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Good article.Thanks for the share.
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You’re welcome. I hope folks read and make a vow to present the very best work possible when publishing.
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Good article. Thanks for sharing, Pat. I was relieved to see that what Amazon looks for are the books with bad editing and formatting. Trolling, as we authors all know, is just that….trollling and it would be very unfair to base a book on those comments.
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Yes, it would. But I worry about them pulling books because of what they deem misspelling. Each time I upload a new book (or someone who has mentioned me in theirs as editor:)), ‘Zick’ always comes up as misspelled.
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This information is very important – just another reason why professionally edited and formatted books are a necessity in this business.
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This will benefit those of us who write well and are professional about our author careers, and, if done well, will elevate the standards of self-published books for both authors and readers.
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That’s my hope, Darlene.
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I have mixed feelings about these new rules.
On the one hand, I’m happy that those awful self-published will be yanked. You know the ones: they read like first drafts and are filled with errors. They make all of us Indie authors look bad.
On the other hand, is this another way for Amazon to target Indie authors and make life difficult for us? As you know, editing a manuscript is costly and still errors sneak by. I’ve read books published by the big-shot publishing houses with errors in them. Is Amazon really going to pull those books?
I guess I feel more discouraged than encouraged by the way this is all going. I can’t have my colleagues review my books and now I’ll have to justify dialect, foreign words, stylistic choices, and who knows what else. Will Stephen King have to do the same?
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I totally agree with you, Lorna, on your “other hand” point. Amazon’s Big Brother attitude has not seemingly leaked over to the top traditionally published best sellers, who, as you mentioned, also have had some errors in their books! And if, say, an author writes historical fiction and uses the vernacular of the time, would he/she be in danger of Amazon’s editorializing??
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We will just have to wait and see. No telling what might transpire. But I certainly hope the trolls are not allowed to rule in this matter.
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I supposed time will tell, eh?
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Yes. Amazon claims it won’t do this for simple errors. So far I haven’t found any books with the designation. Has anyone else?
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I’ve heard that the areas you’ve mentioned will not be targeted. But we shall have to wait and see and watch for books that are tagged. I’m still not certain how it’s going to all shake out, but I agree, I hope it takes care of the poorly written and formatted books.
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Thanks for the reblog!
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