- #HOW TO DELETE KINDLE DIRECT PUBLISHING ACCOUNT INSTALL#
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It asked for up to $75,000 in damages from Glenn. Glenn couldn't be reached for comment.Īmazon is seeking roughly $440,000 in damages from Marrocco and nearly $100,000 from Li. The scam helps artificially increase the number of pages read and therefore royalty payments.ĭryan declined to comment. Dryan was also accused of "hyperlink abuse," a practice now blocked by Amazon in which an author includes in the first few pages of a book a hyperlink that will send readers to the end of a book. The last two filings, involving Thomas Glenn of Miami, Florida, and Jake Dryan of London, England, involved alleged scams to push books higher on best-seller lists. Marrocco in 2015 was accused of helping run a scam on Amazon, but told The Washington Post at the time he was following Amazon's rules.
In Li's case, Amazon said it found 75 percent - 1,471 of the 1,957 reviews - associated with Li's how-to and learning books were "abusive" and were removed. In two other filings, Terrance Li of Ontario, Canada, and Alexis Pablo Marrocco of Argentina were accused of trafficking in fake book reviews.
Rubio didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. In January, an author complained to Amazon after Rubio approached him and offered to take 40 percent of the profits from the scam, the filing said. Using Rubio's alleged system, authors could boost their royalties and Rubio would then get a cut of the higher payday. He apparently did this with the use of hundreds of Amazon accounts he created.įor both Kindle programs, Amazon divvies up royalties every month from a global pool of money, based on how many pages customers read of each book. The man named in the filing, Nilmer Rubio, of Olongapo City in the Philippines, allegedly reached out to authors who used the Kindle self-publishing platform and told them he could artificially inflate the number of pages customers read of their books in two Kindle programs. By taking legal action, Amazon may be hoping it can dissuade would-be scammers from coming to its site in the first place, making its job a little easier.Īs part of Wednesday's filings, one alleged scammer used a novel approach to try making money through Amazon. Its need to continue taking these legal steps points to how hard it can be to stamp out online scams, but also shows how difficult it now is for Amazon to police its enormous list of hundreds of millions of product pages. The company last year also sued alleged counterfeiters. He added that only a "small minority" of those using Kindle Direct Publishing engage in such scams.Īmazon since 2015 has been using these kinds of legal actions to fight against scams and already sued over 1,000 entities involved in allegedly creating fake product reviews on its sites.
"Today's news reflects yet another step in our ongoing efforts to protect readers and authors from individuals who violate our terms of service and manipulate programs readers and authors rely on," an Amazon spokesman said in a statement. The online retailer on Wednesday filed five separate legal actions through the American Arbitration Association to cut down on a variety of alleged scams used to make money on Amazon's Kindle self-publishing service, according to documents obtained by CNET.
#HOW TO DELETE KINDLE DIRECT PUBLISHING ACCOUNT UPDATE#
Enter whatever you want, and click Update information.Amazon has been working for years to clean its sites of fake reviews and fake products. If you’d like to make it easier to remember which computer is which on Kindle, click Edit Info to enter a unique name for your device. Now you’ll only have the devices you want on your account. You’ll be asked to confirm that you want to deregister the device click Deregister to continue. If you’re not sure which is which, try opening Kindle on the computer you still have it installed on and see what its name is. Click Deregister by the Kindle device you wish to remove. Here you’ll see all the computers and mobile devices you have registered on your Kindle account. Scroll down to Your Computer and Other Mobile Devices. Login to your Amazon account on the Manage Your Kindle page ( link below). This way you can remove a computer if you forgot to deactivate it, or if it was lost or stolen and you want to reclaim your books.
#HOW TO DELETE KINDLE DIRECT PUBLISHING ACCOUNT INSTALL#
Now you’re free to install Kindle for PC on another computer without worrying about using another device slot for Kindle.Īlternately, you can always remove activated devices from your online Kindle account.
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