{"id":10861,"date":"2025-08-26T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietleadershipcoach.com\/?p=10861"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:10:05","slug":"amazon-tells-authors-to-start-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leehopkins.com\/vi\/amazon-tells-authors-to-start-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s \u201csolution\u201d for locked authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Start again from scratch<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon has now offered me what they describe as the \u201cmost efficient path forward\u201d in resolving my locked KDP account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their proposal? <strong>Open an entirely new KDP account, then trust them to migrate my existing books and earnings across.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Says yet another, different, Amazon employee: &#8220;Given the difficulties you&#8217;ve faced in regaining access to your original account, would you be open to creating a new KDP account and having us transfer your existing books and earnings over? This may be the most efficient path forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this stage, dear, my faith in your company&#8217;s technical ability to do that can only be measured at the sub-atomic level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The farce continues<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s be clear: this isn\u2019t a solution. It\u2019s an admission of systemic incompetence dressed up as customer support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine your bank saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cSorry, we can\u2019t help you access your account. Why don\u2019t you just open a new one, and we\u2019ll see if we can transfer your balance across?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No regulator would tolerate that response. Yet Amazon, the self-proclaimed \u201cEarth\u2019s most customer-centric company,\u201d offers it as their final word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What they admitted in writing<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s what the latest response confirms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>No manual fix.<\/strong> Even when the system itself blocks the customer, Amazon refuses to intervene.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>No ownership.<\/strong> No single employee will take responsibility end-to-end.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>No continuity.<\/strong> Their best idea is to make authors start over and hope royalties, books, and accounts migrate \u201cefficiently.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, they admit royalties continue to accrue. Translation: <strong>Amazon is sitting on money I\u2019ve already earned, while telling me to rebuild my professional publishing identity from scratch.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why this matters<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t just about one frustrated author. It\u2019s about a trillion-dollar company whose systems are broken, whose culture punishes accountability, and whose idea of \u201ccustomer service\u201d is to push the work back onto the customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon is withholding earned royalties and telling authors: <em>start over if you want to be paid.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I call that unconscionable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Previous posts in this series<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><\/ul>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u2019s latest solution to my blocked KDP account? Start again with a new account and hope my books and royalties migrate. This isn\u2019t customer service, it\u2019s abdication of responsibility. 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