Spam books flooding Amazon Kindle

By Bob Moats on Jun 27, 2011 | In Background

When I first entered the wonderful world of the internet, I started on a plain old text based web browser called Lynx. No internet photos, just text, then along came improvements and the web grew. I could now see pictures, videos and text. Then along came email.

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There were websites that I had to sign up for and give them my email address, which started the spam revolution. There were now people selling everything from sex toys to porn to free (NOT) giveaways. There were the Nigerian letters giving away millions for just providing them with your personal info like social security number or bank account pin. Or all the how to get rich books, I loved those. They were and still are relentless.

Last week I read an article on someone's blog that gave me a chill. I am self-publishing my books on Amazon and it's not easy to get your books out to the public, but there is now a trend for people to make lots of money preying on unsuspecting book readers. This blog showed how one person on Amazon has over 3,000 books listed and all are garbage. This person has taken anything found on the internet, mostly how-to or informational articles, and copying them, formatting and putting them up as a book. They change their name for each one and just slap up these books and people are buying them. Okay not in record numbers but someone is buying.

This brings up my worry, that I have an 18 book series on Amazon, all mystery/thriller novels and I'm concerned that my books may be buried in the tons of spam books being put up everyday. I'm wasn't just believing this one article, until it mentioned a website that sells a video on how to find info, format and publish to Amazon. It's written like any of the get rich quick sites and is enticing to the reader. If you'd like to visit that website see the link at the end of this column.  I'm hoping Amazon does something about the crap that is being put up. Now I do see that these books are all in the how-to or informational vein, so I hope they don't spill over to fiction, where my books reside.

Another concern I have from reading another blog, is theft of book content. There are people who are purchasing a book, copying it and changing the author and cover then reselling it on Amazon. Smashwords.com has reported that they found a few books where this has happened. I often think about my books that could be resold by someone else. I hope Amazon also polices this, but what do they care, the more books they sell the more money they make. It's up to us to watch our back for theft.

I really have to stop reading blogs, I'm worrying myself to death.

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If you'd like to see the video sales website, it's  at http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/354604-no-work-just-income-brand-new-hands-free-passive-income-autopilot-kindle-cash-no-dvd.html" (use your back button to return here) and see for yourself.

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