Spam Hits Amazon Kindle Store
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Amazon’s self-publishing system for Kindle has given many small publishers and independent authors the chance to bring their works in front of Amazon customers without having to go broke. There was never any doubt that spammers would use such a system to bring their junk online. The business of selling junk content can be quite lucrative. Some people use PLR articles to create junk e-books in hours and sell them for a small fee on Amazon.
According to Albert Greco, an expert at Fordham University’s business school, in 2010, 2.8 million nontraditional books were published in the U.S. That is almost twice more than the number of nontraditional books published in 2009. Not surprisingly, many of these e-books are useless.
The e-book publishing business does need some major changes. The fact that some people are stealing other people’s work to publish it as their own is quite problematic. We have been against Amazon restricting authors from bringing their works online. At the same time, spammers and content thieves need to be stopped if this industry is to take the next step forward.
It’s getting to be a more widespread problem. Once a few spammers find a new outlet like this, hoards of them follow… Amazon will definitely have to do more quality control, unless they want the integrity of their products to drop,
says Susan Daffron, president of Logical Expressions. Amazon should apply some kind of quality control to e-books that make it to its store. Of course, we are against these companies censoring controversial e-books. The future of the e-book industry is bright regardless of how many greedy e-marketers target it to make quick bucks. Companies such as Amazon just have to get a bit more involved.
Are you frustrated with the quality of self-published books on Amazon?
