Book-related fraudulent acts rampant on Amazon, victims are not amazon but amateur novelists

ByTim Lucas

The subscription service that Amazon offers in the United States, UK, Italy, Spain, Brazil, France, Mexico, Canada, Germany, India is "Kindle Unlimited(KU) ". It is a former naval officer as "fraudulent acts are being done" among the same services that you can read your favorite book without restriction of the usage period by paying the monthly subscription fee, currently SF Mr. Ann Christie working as a writer points out.

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The subscription service KU is a service that can read books that are unlimitedly registered, but it is becoming very difficult for readers to take advantage of these features and browse the books to be read next by Amazon It is said that. It seems that there is a con artist who is flooding in the KU that makes this difficult.

Since KU is a subscription service, there are books that can be used for this service and others that are not. Authors of books registered in KU can not obtain usage fees based on the price of books, but the revenue is calculated from "what book the user has read in what book". Therefore, even if you think of a book as 100 books in KU and say "Let's not read this", 100 pages of revenue will be paid to the author of the book. On the other hand, even if the user reads all the pages that are interesting and can not be read without reading, the revenue for the number of pages will be paid to the author.

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Because the revenue from which the book holder gains is only 0.0045 dollars per page (about 0.5 yen), even if it is read for 350 pages (about one book), the revenue you earn is only $ 1.575 (about 170 yen )is. Although Amazon understands which books the reader has read, it does not understand the contents of the page, and Amazon understands what page the user reads in the book Have you quit? " Based on this, the author of the book registered in KU will be paid according to the number of pages.

Also, the KU has adopted a method of not synchronizing (not counting the number of pages) until the terminal has finished reading the book. Therefore, returning to the previous page and checking the contents does not increase the number of reading pages. However, if the user clicks the link on the first page of the book, jumps to the page of "Fire HDX 8.9" or Amazon gift card, then jumps to the 3000th page of the book, the author has 3000 pages Usage fee will be paid. A fraudster who ruins the number of pages illegally read using this characteristic appears in the KU.


Recently, Amazon suddenly set the upper limit of the number of pages of books in KU to 3000 pages because Amazon knew that these fraudulent acts are happening. It seems that there were many books exceeding 10,000 pages in KU until this setting became effective. The minimum amount that can be obtained as a usage fee per page is 0.0041 dollars (about 0.45 yen), but if you read 10,000 pages you can earn 4500 yen revenue, so it is hard for the author of a very common book to have a strict price Although it seems to be a setting, it seems that it is becoming "a system that is delicious" for the con artist.

In addition, there are even fraudsters who are disclosing know-how to obtain a lot of usage fee at KU. A 15-year-old boy who used fraudulent acts using KU's mechanism on YouTube earned $ 70,000 (about 7.6 million yen) in just one month. According to the tutorial released by this con artist, the way to earn a lot of money at KU is as follows.

1:Poor bought books or parts of books from advertisements or actual authors. Amazon's review only looks at the first few pages and checks, so it's ok if even firm is there.
2:Add 3,000 pages of garbage pages to the first few pages
3:Prepare about 25 books of similar 3000 pages by changing covers and titles. Of course it is meaningless except for the first few pages because it is intended to go through Amazon's automatic review.
Four:Create a new KDP account with a clean EIN (US Tax Identification Number)
Five:Uploaded to the KU 25 pieces of books with a different author names of 25 people. Book publicity the book using the "free advertising of the five-day" immediately if it is published.
6:Do "click farm" or "click cooperative association"
7A:"Click farm" is a method of accumulating "the number of pages read" of books uploaded by himself / herself on the path using the KU account
7B:"Click cooperative association" is a method of sharing a link of uploaded books and earning "the number of pages read" of books by using multiple KU accounts
8:By doing this, the cheaters will be able to earn thousands of dollars
9:Some con artists also hire people to raise the ranking of books
Ten:If some books are notified to users, books may be deleted from the library. If you do so, you will not be able to earn the money you earn, so after you earn the number of pages, you will make the books private before being deleted so that you can get payment from Amazon securely.
11:Keep the KDP account until the payment date after making all the books private.
12:After getting payment from Amazon, change the cover etc. of the book, earn again by making full use of the new KDP account, EIN, author name.

By repeating these, it is possible to earn 600 dollars (about 65,000 yen) per book. In other words, it seems that you can earn 15,000 dollars (about 1.6 million yen) with 25 disguised books. If you do this fraudulent act once a week, you will get income of $ 60,000 (about 6.5 million yen) in a month.

The one which is seen as one of the camouflage book that Mr. Christy found out is as follows.


Although I read the contents actually, although it is in a bad format, it is said that the aspect as a book is kept until the first 100 pages. However, after that, "confusion will start".


Furthermore, checking the details of the book, although it is a very bad title & cover page, that book is ranked in the 2974th among the books in Aida published on the Kindle Free Store I understand. Also, despite being a book without an illustration, the size of the data is extremely huge as 2837 KB, it is one of the easy-to-understand indications that it is a camouflaged book used for fraud. In addition, it is one of the features of the camouflage book that the release date is April 10, but it is already unpublished when about a week has elapsed.


There is a clear flaw on the system and it is KU who has been used as a con artist, but the fact that the victim is an amateur novelist, not Amazon, is a strong indignation .