What is the way to post plagiarism at Amazon's Kindle store and become ranked number one?

ByQuattrostagioni

John Havel shining first place in the romance novel category of the Kindle store using plagiarism novels has released a way to win 1,800 readers in just five days and rank first in ranking in Amazon categories I will.

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John Havel says, "You buy cheaply someone's novel cheaply and publish it as your work at the Kindle store" to $ 150,000 a year (about 19 million yen)I gotI heard that I was wondering "It's easy to be ranked number one simply by posting to Amazon using others's work"? And, Mr. Havel imitated most of Finch's technique and decided to actually try winning the first place in the Kindle store.

Mr. Havel challenged the category of authentic romance novel with the goal of "imitating Finch's method and becoming first in Amazon's sales within a week". Havel says that he decided to donate all Kindle store sales to charity organizations from the beginning, because the act of selling by misrepresenting the work of others by himself is also close to "fooling readers" .

◆ Production of works
Although it is "production", Havel seems to have made a short story of about 20,000 words by combining romance novels that were made into public domain at first, instead of writing their own sentences. The reason for choosing romance novels is that it is a popular category in the Kindle store, Finch says "it is a category easy to post plagiarism", and Havel seems to be a favorite genre is. However, it is said that the method of combining multiple novels has become a work that does not suit well because the background and the stage of the story do not mesh.

Havel wrote that he would like to post a work of interesting scenario that he would like to give a five star rating no matter whom he reads and heard the name of the character of the work he felt as interesting as Havel read out of romance novel of the public domain It is said that he decided to change only, to rework the cover and put it out to the Kindle store. According to Finch, millionaires and soldiers appeared in popular novels at the Kindle store, and interracial love is often drawn, Havel changed the setting of the main character's male to black. After working for several hours, I changed the work of 60,000 words as a Word document of 160 pages.

◆ Cover and Synopsis Production
"It is said that" You should not decide the content of books on the cover ", but when you sell books at the Kindle store, the binding of the cover will greatly affect the sales of the book. Readers tend to rely on small eye-catching images to select books, further read the explanation of the product page and purchase, the content of the actual book is secondary. Therefore, Mr. Havel created a cover with a design that combines two kinds of fonts, cursive and sans serif, and the photographs of black men who broke their abdominal muscles and upper eyepiece were arranged on the left and right.


◆ Delivered on Amazon
Uploading e-books to Amazon seems to start delivery in the Kindle store in a few hours just by taking a few simple steps. Havel reads the comment written in the evaluation column and seems to have become "captured by plagiarism" completely ".

However, shortly after publishing the work, Amazon received an e-mail from Havel that pointed out that "there are sentences that are free on the web on part of your work." As soon as Havel saw this mail, I felt that my plagiarism was revealed and everything was over, but after five days a new mail arrived from Amazon, "I rewrite my novel and repost You should either choose to either delete it or delete it from the store. " Havel says that he corrected the contents immediately and reposted it.

The following e-mail is the second one received from Amazon and it is decided within 5 days whether to re-post the work, approve it as a work in the public domain, write an author introduction, or delete from the Kindle store Please write ".


Next, Havel started making an introduction page of novel writer Amber Ward on Amazon 's "Author Pages" service. It seemed to be a fun time for Mr. Havel to make a fictitious creator statue, and in order to make it realistic, he got a hint from five real writers and created a novelist Amber Ward. Eventually "Amber Ward, who grew up while traveling around the world, started working as a romance novel when I was small because I grew up in an environment where I have three older brothers after graduating from the psychology department and working at the front line of business, Since then I have been focusing on romance genre and writing works and I love all kinds of watches, the food I dislike is green food, I like to drink Chardonnay at dusk, now my husband and two daughters I am living in Ohio State with Yorkshire Terrier "has been introduced.

The screenshot below is the author introduction page of Amber Ward created on Author Page. The name of the site of criticism such as "JH Book Reviews" and "Pacific Weekly" in the introduction page is of course not real, but what Havel created.


◆ Promotion Activities
In order to have the purchase button of the product click on Amazon, it is effective to fill the review column of the item page with comments anyway and Havel uses Google spreadsheet to combine the review of 60 books Post comments one after another. In other words, the work Havel delivered at the Kindle store was "plagiarism" up to the comment field. Not only that, Havel sent books to 50 friends and received a rating of 4.8 on average for 45 reviews. It seems that this series of promotion activities took two days. "Even if there is no other person sending books, there are several services that create fake reviews, so there are also hands to use them," Havel says.

In order to increase the number of book downloads, Mr. Havel issued a request to Amazon to "change the category of the book" with the help of Finch. Havel's book was originally in a small category named "History Romance of African American" out of the romance novel category, but by adding a small category called "romance of ancient world" It seems that despite the category not related to the content, he quickly jumped to the first place in both categories in a blink of an eye.

The chart below shows the download number of Havel's book. In the Kindle store, "Free download period (PROMOTIONAL PERIOD)" that allows users to get their work free for several days after posting works has been set up, Havel went through 2 days' work production 'and 3 days' promotional activities , I succeeded in achieving the goal of ranking first in the category ranking by winning 1815 downloads during the free download period.


The following screenshot shows the work introduction column on Amazon's product page, which shows that Havel's book is in category 1 in "Ancient World" and "Historical" department.


Easy to exploit Amazon's system
Havel has already deleted the work from the Kindle store, but asserts that "you can trick Amazon if you make sentences with truth". In addition, Mr. Havel says, "Some of those who are raising huge profits with Kindle, like the method I tried, use the back streets of Amazon to self-name" best sellers "as Kindle I criticize the system design of the store.

Since most of Havel 's work was downloaded during the free period, the profit was almost zero, and furthermore it was necessary for registration fee of 9.96 dollars (about 1200 yen) to contribute the work to the Kindle store. In the future, Mr. Havel will give another piece to the Kindle store for 5 months and try to see if sales at the level that can live are obtained.