New Amazon Rules on eBook Bonus Content - Indies Unlimited

Panzer was cleaning out the Panzermobile when he saw something stuffed under the passenger headrest. Pulling it out our fastidious kitty found a wadded up post. Smoothing it out, he discovered it was a post from the Indies Unlimited site about ebook bonus content.

According to Lynn Cantwell, Amazon (finally) began cracking down on Chance Carter one of the big-time book stuffers. Panzer told you about book stuffing last month. It's when authors put extra ebooks and stories into an ebook in Amazon Select to expand the length of the book. Then the author includes a link at the beginning of the book to get the reader to click to the end. Amazon then pays the author as if the whole book was read. This post explains the things an author needs to do to make sure she/he isn't breaking Amazon's new Terms of Service when adding legitimate bonus material. There are links included in the post to information on what constitutes book stuffing.

After all that work I need a nap.

Panzer says, "This little kitty knows this is a June post, but the information about the proper way to play by Amazon's rules makes it worth the read."

Note: This is a medium post. Bring a cup of tea and a muffin for today's reading selection.

To read the post tootle over to Amazon 

 To read Panzer's earlier post about book stuffing tootle over to book stuffing

Cassandra Dee and Mosaic Book Stuffing - David Gaughran

Panzer was tootling around in the Catosphere when the Panzermobile was buffeted by shouting and gnashing of teeth. Following all the angry noises took our brave kitty pilot to David Gaughran's blog. There with no digging at all he discovered a post about book stuffing.

Why isn't Amazon looking at her books?

According to the post by site owner David Gaughran, book stuffing is alive and thriving on Kindle Unlimited (KU). Book stuffing in case you haven't seen or heard of it is when an author stuffs a bunch of material/books into another book to increase the page count to 2,000 or so pages. Then, the author includes an inducement to get the reader to flip to the last page of the ebook. Both of these are against Amazon's Terms of Service. This is because one of the ways authors in KU are paid is by the number of pages read in the book. These authors' books have so many other books stuffed into them that the authors are robbing Amazon's KU fund and the honest authors who don't book stuff. Apparently, Chance Carter, one of the book stuffers, got caught by Amazon and his account shut down, but there are a myriad of others still working in KU. The Cassandra Dee of the post title is one of them and Mr. Gaughran gives a breakdown of how she does the book stuffing. There are links at the beginning of the post to other information about book stuffing.

Panzer says, "Be sure to read the Comment section too. You'll read how to report these book stuffers."

Note: This is a h-u-m-o-n-g-o-u-s post. Bring a thermos of tea, a dozen chocolate chip cookies (biscuits), and two muffins.

To read the post tootle over to book stuffing