Amazon Kindle

I am not a huge reader but I do find myself sometimes not wanting to read a book during commute because I don’t want others looking at the book I read. Think the Kindle might be useful for me because of this. A few queries:

• how durable is a Kindle?

• how many books do you guys fit into the kindle?

Hey guys! During corona, many people are buying their books online. So I thought it would be a good idea to point out some alternative platforms to support independent bookstores.

is an online book retailer that sends 10% of your purchase price to a crowdfunding pool for independent bookstores. It sells hardcovers and paperbacks. To date, it has raised nearly 7 million for locations across the U.S.! Right now, everything is 10% off!

(Indie bound) is another online bookseller that sends books directly from local bookstores.

is an e-book seller where you can purchase ebooks through your local indie bookstore and support them.

is an eaudiobook seller that sends 15% of your purchase price to an independent bookstore of your choosing. It has a great selection and an app to listen to audiobooks on the go. It costs the same as Audible and it has the same benefits. Due to a smaller marketing budget, it only has 10,000 downloads on the app store. Let’s get that number higher!

We are cooperating with Insightful to give away an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite! We are hoping to have you help us find the most interesting topics for people to learn about.

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Date has been posted! It will be on April 11th!

So exciting! While there has been at least one time where the actual publication date was a few days late, this is really promising! Exactly as I've been expecting, haha.

We will see soon on Amazon if this is the final chapter count, but I expect so!

Source:

I downloaded the Amazon Kindle app on my Apple Vision Pro from the App Store. Super pleased.

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Hello

I am at the end of the road here and I have nowhere else to turn to, therefore I am hoping a kind and helpful Amazonian Redditor can help me out here. I am a full time Amazon third party seller and I was recently suspended for being a loyal amazon customer and subscriber.

I recently set up a Kindle fire for my 5 year old son, In order to make it easier for him to learn how to use it, I changed my profile name ON THE KINDLE to “BABA” , “BABA” essentially means DADDY in our native language (爸爸). The profile name change was on the Kindle fire only and I DID NOT change any other information on my buyers account or sellers account.

3 days later on Sunday, I woke up with the notification that states that Amazon has suspended my seller account. They had asked provide a proof of address and a government document. I immediately gathered all my documents and faxed it to them on Sunday afternoon. Then on Sunday night I got a response and they told me I need to provide a passport for “BABA”, or my seller account will not be reinstated.

this is virtually impossible, “BABA” is not a real person and just a profile nickname change. I have already replied twice and tried to explain. But they will not take the explanation at all. Here is their response

Hello, Thank you for your email. We understand your concern about our review of your account. Unfortunately there is no other way to remove the suspension. We would require the documents of Baba as it is listed on one of the payment instruments used on your account. If we are not able to properly complete this process we are required to suspend account privileges until the matter is resolved. While we do not wish to cause our customers any unnecessary inconvenience, please understand this is simply an unavoidable requirement. If you have further questions or concerns, you can contact us at Sincerely, Amazon.com

Because of the time of response and content of response, I am pretty sure that is either a computer or someone overseas. Also worth noting is “BABA” is not listed as ANY payment instruction on both buyer or seller’s account.

I also want to explain what happens after Amazon suspends a 3rd party seller account. They hold your seller balance for a minimum of 90 days ( in my case would be to $40,000 ) they also hold your inventory and charge you a storage fee unless you pay to have it sent back to you ( in my case about another $100,000 in inventory ) sending it back to me will cost me another $5000-$7000. Customer service is also ceased as they basically close the door on sellers once they are suspended and the seller need to figure out how to proceed with no help from Amazon at all.

So basically, a small change on my Kindle fire destroyed my livelihood.

A little more about my family and I. We have a 5-year-old son and my wife is 8 months pregnant, we also have 2 employees that depend on us. With this suspension + Amazon holding our funds and inventory, we will run out of money soon and lose our house because we can no longer afford the payment. I will not be able to afford the CO-PAY for my next child’s birth. I will not have money to pay the salary for my 2 employees in January. I will need to find a way to break our lease on our workspace, and find a way to pay severance to my beloved employees. I will probably have to move back in with my parents and give up my business. Its really sad because I have done nothing wrong. All I did was change a profile name on a Amazon device.

I am not looking for any financial help, I am just hoping that a fellow Redditor that is an Amazonian can help me out and direct me to someone that would actually look at my case and care enough to understand it. I live in the Bothell area and I am willing to travel to any Seattle Area Amazon office to fully explain my situation.

Or if you know someone in Amazon that can help me out, please share this with them and I would be forever grateful. Please PM me with any advice or suggestions.

I am a loyal amazon customer, loyal amazon seller, and loyal subscriber for multiple amazon monthly services. All I wanted was to teach my little boy how to use a Tablet, never had I thought that it would cost my employess and I our jobs.

I also used a throwaway for this for privacy reasons, other account has a lot posted about my kid.

Update 12-07-2016 12:10PM

I received the same canned response at approximately 2 AM last night, the account verification team is definitely a computer bot or someone that is not been taking the time out to read my explanation. It looks like the people at account verification are dead set that "BABA" is a real person and will not let me off the hook until I can provide an ID for them.

Hello, We understand your concern about our review of your account. If we are not able to properly complete this process we are required to suspend account privileges until the matter is resolved. While we do not wish to cause our customers any unnecessary inconvenience, please understand this is simply an unavoidable requirement. Our request for information does not suggest any wrongdoing on your part. We will use the information only to confirm identity. Your privacy is very important to us.

Please send this information for Baba to our secure fax line at 1-206-922-5821:

Complete address Copy of unexpired passport or other government issued identification (for example, driver’s license) The e-mail address registered to your Amazon account Confirmation ID 770571901 We will send an e-mail within 24 hours confirming receipt. We will convert your fax to a secure electronic image.

If we do not receive this information, your account may be closed.

Regards,

Amazon.com

RESOLVED..!!!

GREATTTTTT NEWSSS!!!

ALL OF YOU GUYS REALLY HELPED ME OUT !!!!!!!

THE ACCOUNT HAS BEEN REINSTATED.

I want to a big thanks to

All Amazonians that helped me raise the internal ticket !!

for bridging my case to the correct people at seller performance

Amazon buyers that emailed Mr Bezo on my behalf

And everyone else that gave me solid advice and words of support

Nearly everything I read is through kindle unlimited. I love that I can just grab what I want, when I want and that both my wife and I can use it for a reasonable subscription fee (relative to what we used to pay for books). Sometimes when I particularly enjoy a series on KU, I will buy it so that A) I can keep it and free up space in the KU library, and B) the author I enjoyed gets a little more money.

Now my question is how are authors compensated by Amazon? If I read on KU, then buy, do they get paid more than if I just bought outright or just read on KU? Is there any benefit to the authors if I pre-order the upcoming book on the series? I'm not looking to subscribe to a bunch of patreons or purchase too many more physical books, but I want the authors whose work I love to be compensated somehow. How can I best do that? Thanks for the help

Me gusta mucho leer en papel pero siento que tampoco quiero acumular tantos libros físicos por espacio y estoy viendo las Amazon Kindle y me llamaron la atención… como seria los libros ahi ? Se compran mas barato que fisico? Existe algo parecido a un Netflix pero en libros donde pueda leer lo que sea pagando yja suscripción?

I’d like to get more into reading. I don’t think I’ve read a full book in the last decade, and even then I hadn’t read as much as I would have liked to. I figure audiobooks can help ease me back into it. Please assume I haven’t read anything you’re thinking of suggesting and give me all the recommendations! I like fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, female perspectives, anything queer, true crime, romance but it has to have something else along with it, mysteries, horror, anything that gives me the feels, and anything dark yet beautiful.

Edit: Thank you all for the suggestions!!

I finished reading Shadow Slave Book/Volume 29 yesterday night and went to amazon to check whether or not Book 30 was already available. I could not find it, all volumes disappeared from the store (amazon Germany).
I can still access the volumes I already purchased in my library though.

I can't find any news/info regarding why it might have been pulled, but I'm also not active in the RR/Webnovel/LitRPG-communities outside of this one, so maybe one of you knows more?

The official date has been posted! November 16th!

Brothers.

I'm thrilled to announce that my first ebook is available on Amazon Kindle. It's a collection of short horror crime thrillers.

I've always been obsessed with the paranormal and have been writing garbage for a long time. While the groundwork for this short ebook was layed in 2019, a lot of hurdles kept me from finishing it sooner. It is therefore, for me, a big deal.

For obvious reasons, I can't share the link here. Feel free to inbox me privately if interested. Do remember to leave a feedback if you buy a copy.

I looooove free brooks, and I just picked up several today and wanted to share with you guys. Apologies if these have been posted before.

Edit: I was going to reformat it to make the links all pretty, but it's 6am where I'm at and I'm on my phone. Lol. 😆 I'll probably get around to fixing it later. Enjoy!

Edit 2: Because apparently I have a problem, here are two more free books.

Edit 3: Did I mention that I have a problem?

• shout out to for the heads up

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Edit 6: Cleaned up the links a bit so they're not so much of a hot mess. Also wanted to add another rec fellow redditors.

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