"But reading it and making me think that I've made an income and then that income being taken away from me, that feels like stealing." If somebody wants to read it for free, they can," Creel said. "I have my book available at the library. Those suggesting the read-and-return practice think they're "sticking it to Amazon," but in reality are only harming the authors, said Eva Creel, a fantasy writer who publishes under the name E. Kristy Bromberg, a romance author, said she's had more returns in the past two months than she had in the entire eight months before that combined.
"You think, 'Can I still make a living if this continues?' and that's very disheartening."
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Now, she sees entire series of hers being returned. Kessler said prior to the "read and return" trend, she would normally have one or two book returns a month, something she attributed to genuine accidental purchases. To date, the petition has garnered almost 70,000 signatures. Reah Foxx, a book lover from Louisiana, started a petition to change the policy after seeing "life hacks" circulating on social media that teach readers to abuse the Amazon return policy and read for free. Kessler - Wolf's Witch - Out Now JAuthors and readers want to change the policy It's June 1st and I owe Amazon at the moment because people are reading through the Muse series and returning the books when they finish. When you read and return a book it COSTS the author. Just a reminder that Amazon is NOT a library. Authors can end up with negative balances when customers return books after the author has already been paid by Kindle Direct Publishing, an Amazon spokesperson said. When an Amazon customer returns an e-book, royalties originally paid to the author at the time of purchase are deducted from their earnings balance. Amazon's current return policy for e-books allows customers to "cancel an accidental book order within seven days." But, for some readers, seven days is more than enough time to finish a book and return it after reading, effectively treating Amazon like a library. The reason for the negative balance? Kindle e-book returns.Īuthors are protesting Amazon's e-book return policy, a system they say allows readers to "steal" from self-published authors.
On her publishing dashboard, she saw something she had never seen before in her 11 years as an author: a negative earnings balance.
A kindle e-book reader is pictured at the Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2015.Įarlier this month, Lisa Kessler, a paranormal romance author, logged into Kindle Direct Publishing to check her earnings from the previous month.
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