Amazon claimed I had breached a trademark so they closed my account and deleted all my books and reviews. They also told me 2 months of owed royalties would not be paid. There's a word for taking people's money. Apparently I'd used a phrase in a subtitle that unbeknownst to me was trademarked. The other publisher reached out and politely asked me to change the phrase to avoid this. I said, 'Of course I will,' but by that time Amazon had terminated my account that I'd had since 2014 without blemish. You can get my books elsewhere still but not on Amazon. I'd be grateful if you would continue to support me. Print books will be available through your bookstore in due course. For now you can get my latest ebook on Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/further-ghost-stories
I'm such small fry. £50-£200 a month. I honestly feel more wholesome and less conflicted to be rid of them now. But thank you for your kind thoughts and support. It does mean a lot.
I am so sorry, Tony. You of all people!!!! My favorite local on line bookstore here in Denmark provides all of your books without problems. They will even (for a modest fee) gift-wrap, inclose a card, and ship them anywhere you like, managing all the international paperwork if necessary. I am sure there are other online bookshops in other countries with the same services. Everybody I know is going to get one of your books as a gift-wrapped present. I hope others will have the opportunity to do the same. Boycot Amazon! and spread the word!!!
Awful. YouTube have a similar reputation for copyright breaches, and rather than letting a person remove the offending material just shut down their account and won’t allow them to dispute it. I hope you are more successful with Amazon than I was with YouTube.
Amazon's arbitrary and opaque practices always infuriate me. A few years ago they blocked me from reviewing books, but that is nothing compared to their attack on you.
Is there a web address where I can buy your ebooks?
Really sorry that they've behaved so badly to you. Language should not be trademark-able! But Amazon just abuse their power all the time - I've seen so many independent authors suffer at their hands.
Do you mean the print versions? I can still see your audiobooks up on Amazon for USA. Very sorry this happened, Tony. Such large companies seem to forget humans are involved and that humans make mistakes, but are also willing to fix them.
I did read that the UK Writer’s Guild went out in solidarity with their US colleagues recently and part of the article mentioned the Amazon production of Lord of the Rings would be potentially affected . I was wondering if there is any help available in regards to dispute resolutions such as these through the Guild
Might be time to cut the Amazon umbilical cord. It strikes me that you are basically an indie author, which lends itself to setting up your own website to sell your books, & using the services of some outfit like BookFunnel.com.
Amazon Terminated All My Books!
Audiobooks are via a audible so that’s separate. they maybe haven’t figured out i’m the same person
I'm such small fry. £50-£200 a month. I honestly feel more wholesome and less conflicted to be rid of them now. But thank you for your kind thoughts and support. It does mean a lot.
I am so sorry, Tony. You of all people!!!! My favorite local on line bookstore here in Denmark provides all of your books without problems. They will even (for a modest fee) gift-wrap, inclose a card, and ship them anywhere you like, managing all the international paperwork if necessary. I am sure there are other online bookshops in other countries with the same services. Everybody I know is going to get one of your books as a gift-wrapped present. I hope others will have the opportunity to do the same. Boycot Amazon! and spread the word!!!
Oh my word. This is horrible. I’m so sorry they did this to you. I hope you can get it resolved.
Awful. YouTube have a similar reputation for copyright breaches, and rather than letting a person remove the offending material just shut down their account and won’t allow them to dispute it. I hope you are more successful with Amazon than I was with YouTube.
Amazon's arbitrary and opaque practices always infuriate me. A few years ago they blocked me from reviewing books, but that is nothing compared to their attack on you.
Is there a web address where I can buy your ebooks?
Stay strong.
In solidarty,
Jay
Wouldn't it be fun if you sued for theft and breach of contract and won...?! 😁
Really sorry that they've behaved so badly to you. Language should not be trademark-able! But Amazon just abuse their power all the time - I've seen so many independent authors suffer at their hands.
I try to buy books thru i Biblio these days. Amazon just keeps getting worse as far as they treat everyone. Sorry to hear this happened.
Do you mean the print versions? I can still see your audiobooks up on Amazon for USA. Very sorry this happened, Tony. Such large companies seem to forget humans are involved and that humans make mistakes, but are also willing to fix them.
I wondered what had happened. I was able to get a recorded version of “Horror Stories for Halloween” on audible.
Terrible. I'm so sorry
I did read that the UK Writer’s Guild went out in solidarity with their US colleagues recently and part of the article mentioned the Amazon production of Lord of the Rings would be potentially affected . I was wondering if there is any help available in regards to dispute resolutions such as these through the Guild
Nobody likes a bully. I hope if enough people realise how this money grubbing behemoth operates they’ll vote with their money.
Might be time to cut the Amazon umbilical cord. It strikes me that you are basically an indie author, which lends itself to setting up your own website to sell your books, & using the services of some outfit like BookFunnel.com.
This is why I boycott Amazon and have done forever.