| What is ridiculous that while these kind of KU scams abound a legitimate publisher is still unable to publish on KDP (where people pay real money for a real e-book whole) unless your language is one of the chosen few:
https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A9FDO0A3V0119 It took forever to get Welsh added to the list and after that no change for the past 4-5 years on Amazon KDP. Finnish is fine, but Estonian is not. Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian are deemed unreadable by Amazon KDP despite rendering just fine sideloaded on my Kindle. It is beyond infuriating. I have edited multiple books for a non-profit organisation to publish on Amazon Createspace, that is the print-on-demand division. No problem on Amazon print-on-demand you can publish in Klingon if you want, but every time I choose to publish the same book on KDP(KDP is half-assedly integrated into Createspace Dashboard) my books get thrown back programmatically after a few days because too much of the text is in an unsupported language. The official Amazon reason for refusal to publish these same books on Kindle is because they feel the user experience in unsupported languages would be substandard. In other words Amazon are either incompetent and understuffed or mostly just do not care about publishing in niche languages. I suspect it is the latter since I doubt the former. This is despite the book rendering just fine on my Kindle privately I just can't publish it on KDP. I apologize for the rant, but it irks me that Amazon a company which is supposed to care about book publishing is so blase about it. |