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RenaissanceGuy:
It's not a big deal for Amazon to send you a message to publish your ebooks on paperback. It's a normal thing, because FYI paperbacks sell waaaaaay more than ebooks. Even if you have made no single dollar, Amazon would still prompt or message you to make a paperback version of your ebook just after you publish your ebook. So don't try to make it look like it's an executive message they send only to people who make thousands of dollars.

franchasng:
You can still earn from your ebooks if you are sure you own them completely and not copied from copyrighted materials.


If you want to still earn from those books you wrote, and you are sure they are 80% your original work, I can guide you on how and where to publish them again and even make more sales than you made on Amazon.


But before you proceed, reflect back and check if you did anything wrong or used any shady method during your writing process.

I speak because I started publishing on Amazon kdp as far back as in 2012/2013 and I have been earning constant passive income from there, and three of my books made bestseller at some period and my account have never been banned or had issue but instead kdp have invited me several times to turn my Kindle books to paperback.



So there is something you did, think deeply

online4business:
I hate it when Nigerians generalize, 80 books in 3 years is even to low.

The key to writing fast is in following a template.

Here's the problem most people 99.9% don't have any template to follow.

Dale Carnegie has a template (the best)

Dan Kennedy has a template(structure) he writes to…

Can you show me any copywriter on the planet that has more content than Dan Kennedy….none.

Th guy has a newsletter, mastermind,gkic, magnetic marketing, marketing to the affluent, small business coaching group and he's also publishing books.

All these he wrote himself for more than ten years…so the template works.

If you don't have a template then it'll take you long hours even months to write a book.

When you can do it in weeks. This is even before AI era.

This is what I hate about Nigerian they don't learn from “successful ‘’ authors.

Dean kootz write to structure and he has lots of books writing in weeks google.

Dean kootz and Stephen King are pair but Stephen always start from a blank sheet or write from experience.

Guess who makes more money overall?.

Influential writing by Dan Kennedy shows his template, and anyone can do it too.

Fun fact

Even without AI I was writing one blog post a day following the income school model.

The nigga yapping about being in kdp since 2012 is not making any money.

Kdp invite him to do a paperback pleaseeeees.

If you're making money on kdp you can't stop publishing.

Rather you'd find a way to open another account. And even get an LLC ACCOUNT SO YOU'RE PUBLISHING FROM THE US.

Kdp terminated my account in 2023 it was the best decision of my life.

HERE'S how it changed my life.

Now I've figured how Google works, wrote content to my true believers.

This got me an American babe, I got through my blog.

Got a Gambia and Uganda passport legitimately ( Uganda own was the easiest. I now travel around the world.

Blogging gave me what kdp cannot give me, even Google update is not my problem.

Here's why.

I've a cult following in the diabetes niche all thanks to following Dan Kennedy influential writing system.

Why others chase ranking, I was strategic on how to own customers for life.

AI can write and most fools use AI to write but they are not interested in making the person they write to believe.

If you can read expert secret by Russel Bronson he has a template there.

Let me drop a nugget

Here's a secret not to get refunds on your books, but you can also use it in other aspects of publishing YouTube videos etc

Encourage people dreams
Justify their failure
Confirm their inner beliefs (the power of I'm right, if you do only this well you'll have a friend for life.
Help throw rocks at their enemies (everyone is engaged in one way or the other in a struggle)
No movement ever rises without a devil.

Study trump he's successful and have been successfully doing the devil thing…every time he has a devil that must be blamed.

Here's an example, and you can do it now and see the response.

Millions of overweight people don't want to accept any blame. tell them it's not their fault? And see what happens.

Tell them it's the fault of the food companies who put too much sugar and addictive that's making them fat.

Tell them it's the fault of the government who allow too much sugar in our food and drink.

I can go on and on but you've to have many devil so you can effortlessly influence people.

You can't tell them it's their fault. You'd be shooting yourself in the foot.

A warning to anyone looking for a mentor on nairaLand.

Make sure the person is making money ( good money) no be audio money ooo.

In this life many people know how to make money but almost all are broke.

Their idea of making money is for you to give them money…that's how they make their money.

And when you see someone please follow them like say you dey follow pus.sy.

The era of generic writing is over since everyone and their brother can write with AI.

No pm I don't answer pm.

izicode1:
Attached is my earning for the last 3 months, and this account has been active for the last 4 years. I did my first publication on the 1st of April 2021, with no significant result or sales to show.

The account was dormant until last year February that I met a mentor, who put me through and since then it has be thousands of dollars monthly.

From my many years of experience, here are the reasons Amazon could block an account:

1. Inconsistency: By inconsistency I mean writing on different niches in one account. Today, cookbook, tomorrow, mental health, next tomorrow parenting. Doing this shows you are a writer not an author, and what Amazon needs are authors.

2. You have infringe on trademark keywords. The reality is that you can write on any keywords, even if it is trademarked, but with a twist, which you must learn how to do.

3. infringing Copyright on images ( very serious). To this I totally avoid writing books with images

4. High refund rate. Most publishers don't even know or border to check what is their refund rate. Usually, you archive book with high refund rate no matter how sweet the sales appear than Amazon doing that for you. Doing that for you leads to account termination

5. Then producing low quality contents, which usually leads to high refund rate. Even if you are using AI, there is a skill to make you book one of the best, if not the best in any niche.

If you can develop the right skill, Amazon is a life changer for anyone.

lacasera14:
My only problem with Amazon KDP is Payooner. All the money I make goes into yearly subscription and I get nothing at the end. 😢

izicode1:
Attached is my earning for the last 3 months, and this account has been active for the last 4 years. I did my first publication on the 1st of April 2021, with no significant result or sales to show.

The account was dormant until last year February that I met a mentor, who put me through and since then it has be thousands of dollars monthly.

From my many years of experience, here are the reasons Amazon could block an account:

1. Inconsistency: By inconsistency I mean writing on different niches in one account. Today, cookbook, tomorrow, mental health, next tomorrow parenting. Doing this shows you are a writer not an author, and what Amazon needs are authors.

2. You have infringe on trademark keywords. The reality is that you can write on any keywords, even if it is trademarked, but with a twist, which you must learn how to do.

3. infringing Copyright on images ( very serious). To this I totally avoid writing books with images

4. High refund rate. Most publishers don't even know or border to check what is their refund rate. Usually, you archive book with high refund rate no matter how sweet the sales appear than Amazon doing that for you. Doing that for you leads to account termination

5. Then producing low quality contents, which usually leads to high refund rate. Even if you are using AI, there is a skill to make you book one of the best, if not the best in any niche.

If you can develop the right skill, Amazon is a life changer for anyone.

lacasera14:
My only problem with Amazon KDP is Payooner. All the money I make goes into yearly subscription and I get nothing at the end. 😢

Love800:
How does this amazon works? I have lot of stories to write.

Will be glad if you help show me how its being done.

JimD:
No it's not. It's an attack on shady tactics.

HelenaWills:
Lmao!
Shady tactics?
Are you a publisher on the platform?
Have you made good money from them? I'm not talking imaginary earnings please.

You'll know when you get there.
There was nothing shady about my works yet my account was taken down for operating two accounts.
Why on hell would I need two accounts when I was making millions from the platform? Pray tell.

SuperOnyi:




Let them keep talking ignorantly, others are saying it's because OP "spammed" Amazon with 80 books in 3 years. People publish 100 quality books within month especially with the help of AI prompts engineering.

I also lost my account, they said there's a feature in mine that was similar to another book (which is definitely a big publisher's work). They weren't specific. They banned two more after that one.

That's when I decided to go underground and at this point... Oh well, God...

nairasuggest:
Bro, do you have material on who wants to learn this business

HelenaWills:
Lmao!
Shady tactics?
Are you a publisher on the platform?
Have you made good money from them? I'm not talking imaginary earnings please.

You'll know when you get there.
There was nothing shady about my works yet my account was taken down for operating two accounts.
Why on hell would I need two accounts when I was making millions from the platform? Pray tell.

JimD:
You got taken down for having two accounts.

HelenaWills:
Man, get lost abeg.

franchasng:
you cannot get sales with those type of books or topics.


If you want to make sales on kdp, think like the readers.


The readers are mostly from US, Europe, UK, Asia, etc, so ask yourself what topic readers from these aforementioned countries would love to read about?m

I’m interested in your tips and ready to learn.

Can I send dm via the telegram in your signature?


It must be something relevant and unique to those audience, if not you will struggle to make a sale.


Also blogging will help you if you start blogging about your topics and adding links of your kdp books in your blog posts to refer people back to your books. It worked for me back then.



There are many other methods to increase your sales

lacasera14:
My only problem with Amazon KDP is Payooner. All the money I make goes into yearly subscription and I get nothing at the end. 😢

online4business:
I hate it when Nigerians generalize, 80 books in 3 years is even to low.

The key to writing fast is in following a template.

Here's the problem most people 99.9% don't have any template to follow.

Dale Carnegie has a template (the best)

Dan Kennedy has a template(structure) he writes to…

Can you show me any copywriter on the planet that has more content than Dan Kennedy….none.

Th guy has a newsletter, mastermind,gkic, magnetic marketing, marketing to the affluent, small business coaching group and he's also publishing books.

All these he wrote himself for more than ten years…so the template works.

If you don't have a template then it'll take you long hours even months to write a book.

When you can do it in weeks. This is even before AI era.

This is what I hate about Nigerian they don't learn from “successful ‘’ authors.

Dean kootz write to structure and he has lots of books writing in weeks google.

Dean kootz and Stephen King are pair but Stephen always start from a blank sheet or write from experience.

Guess who makes more money overall?.

Influential writing by Dan Kennedy shows his template, and anyone can do it too.

Fun fact

Even without AI I was writing one blog post a day following the income school model.

The nigga yapping about being in kdp since 2012 is not making any money.

Kdp invite him to do a paperback pleaseeeees.

If you're making money on kdp you can't stop publishing.

Rather you'd find a way to open another account. And even get an LLC ACCOUNT SO YOU'RE PUBLISHING FROM THE US.

Kdp terminated my account in 2023 it was the best decision of my life.

HERE'S how it changed my life.

Now I've figured how Google works, wrote content to my true believers.

This got me an American babe, I got through my blog.

Got a Gambia and Uganda passport legitimately ( Uganda own was the easiest. I now travel around the world.

Blogging gave me what kdp cannot give me, even Google update is not my problem.

Here's why.

I've a cult following in the diabetes niche all thanks to following Dan Kennedy influential writing system.

Why others chase ranking, I was strategic on how to own customers for life.

AI can write and most fools use AI to write but they are not interested in making the person they write to believe.

If you can read expert secret by Russel Bronson he has a template there.

Let me drop a nugget

Here's a secret not to get refunds on your books, but you can also use it in other aspects of publishing YouTube videos etc

Encourage people dreams
Justify their failure
Confirm their inner beliefs (the power of I'm right, if you do only this well you'll have a friend for life.
Help throw rocks at their enemies (everyone is engaged in one way or the other in a struggle)
No movement ever rises without a devil.

Study trump he's successful and have been successfully doing the devil thing…every time he has a devil that must be blamed.

Here's an example, and you can do it now and see the response.

Millions of overweight people don't want to accept any blame. tell them it's not their fault? And see what happens.

Tell them it's the fault of the food companies who put too much sugar and addictive that's making them fat.

Tell them it's the fault of the government who allow too much sugar in our food and drink.

I can go on and on but you've to have many devil so you can effortlessly influence people.

You can't tell them it's their fault. You'd be shooting yourself in the foot.

A warning to anyone looking for a mentor on nairaLand.

Make sure the person is making money ( good money) no be audio money ooo.

In this life many people know how to make money but almost all are broke.

Their idea of making money is for you to give them money…that's how they make their money.

And when you see someone please follow them like say you dey follow pus.sy.

The era of generic writing is over since everyone and their brother can write with AI.

No pm I don't answer pm.

franchasng:
You can still earn from your ebooks if you are sure you own them completely and not copied from copyrighted materials.


If you want to still earn from those books you wrote, and you are sure they are 80% your original work, I can guide you on how and where to publish them again and even make more sales than you made on Amazon.


But before you proceed, reflect back and check if you did anything wrong or used any shady method during your writing process.

I speak because I started publishing on Amazon kdp as far back as in 2012/2013 and I have been earning constant passive income from there, and three of my books made bestseller at some period and my account have never been banned or had issue but instead kdp have invited me several times to turn my Kindle books to paperback.



So there is something you did, think deeply

Kalatium:
In August 2025, I faced one of the toughest blows in my professional and creative life.

After writing and publishing 80 books in 3 years on Amazon KDP, I woke up one day to find my account permanently banned. No prior warning. No specific explanation. No chance to genuinely fix anything. Just a blunt message: “Your account has been terminated.”

I appealed. I waited. I hoped. But the response was the same — rejection without clarity.

It felt like watching years of hard work, sleepless nights, and passion suddenly erased.
I didn’t just lose books. I lost:

A source of income I had carefully built.

An outlet where my voice reached readers around the world.

A dream I had invested deeply in.

But here’s the part I want to share openly: I refuse to see this as the end.

Because those 80 books are still proof of my discipline, creativity, and consistency.
Because the skills I developed in writing, publishing, and marketing cannot be banned.
Because setbacks are not the end — they are redirections.

Yes, I am hurt. Yes, I am disappointed. But I am also grateful:
🙏 Grateful for the lessons learned.
🙏 Grateful for the global readers who discovered my work.
🙏 Grateful for the chance to rise again, this time smarter and stronger.

This experience has taught me two things:
1️⃣ Never build all your dreams on a single platform. Own your audience. Diversify.
2️⃣ Resilience matters. Systems may fail you, but your spirit must not.

Amazon may have shut a door on me, but it also opened my eyes to explore Kobo, IngramSpark, Smashwords, and even building my own publishing path.

I’m not quitting. I’m simply pivoting.

So if you’re reading this, let my story remind you: when life pulls a rug under your feet, stand taller on the bare floor.

The pen is still in my hand, and the story continues. ✍️

izicode1:
Attached is my earning for the last 3 months, and this account has been active for the last 4 years. I did my first publication on the 1st of April 2021, with no significant result or sales to show.

The account was dormant until last year February that I met a mentor, who put me through and since then it has be thousands of dollars monthly.

From my many years of experience, here are the reasons Amazon could block an account:

1. Inconsistency: By inconsistency I mean writing on different niches in one account. Today, cookbook, tomorrow, mental health, next tomorrow parenting. Doing this shows you are a writer not an author, and what Amazon needs are authors.

2. You have infringe on trademark keywords. The reality is that you can write on any keywords, even if it is trademarked, but with a twist, which you must learn how to do.

3. infringing Copyright on images ( very serious). To this I totally avoid writing books with images

4. High refund rate. Most publishers don't even know or border to check what is their refund rate. Usually, you archive book with high refund rate no matter how sweet the sales appear than Amazon doing that for you. Doing that for you leads to account termination

5. Then producing low quality contents, which usually leads to high refund rate. Even if you are using AI, there is a skill to make you book one of the best, if not the best in any niche.

If you can develop the right skill, Amazon is a life changer for anyone.

SuperOnyi:



Let's hope the bot doesn't ban me.

Just pray it doesn't happen to you, Amazon has become extremely toxic and strict. You can be innocent and still get bitten. A lot of us use AI, not because we can't write, but because we can't afford to waste all of that time and end up losing our royalties.

If it wasn't for the relentless terminations, I would have had some spare cash to diversify into other platforms through publishdrive. I keep getting banned every time I comment or post anything by this Nairaland bot, does that mean I'm at fault here?

People saying it's because he "spammed" 80 books, I laugh at their ignorance. As a broke independent author, 80 books in 3 years is extremely slow. Very slow. If you understand prompt engineering, you can write top quality books with AI. I see big independent publishers doing it, I could write with AI and you would never notice.

Amazon isn't being fair to Nigerian publishers, whether we like it or not, writing is business. Yes, some people try to play the system but innocent people end up getting hit. Now, it's even worse. Almost all the publishers I know in this game don't use Naija accounts.

dreamxhaser:
Bro, quit that AI stuff.

My mentor, who is an expert in this game (10 years in the game), has warned me against it. Amazon can detect AI easily because they have the resources.

He always emphasized quality over anything. Your aim is to make customers happy, nothing less.

These are the things that get people’s accounts terminated:

Low-quality books (AI-generated, plagiarism issues, etc.).

Images: A lot of people take pictures from Google, which Amazon can easily identify.

Trademarked titles: Some titles have been trademarked, which can lead to termination.

And many more. There is always a reason behind account termination, except for a few exceptions.

People want to make this money so fast that they have turned it into a game of numbers. Imagine those annoying guys on Twitter creating challenges on the number of books published in a month.


Thank God Amazon has frustrated most of them out of the business. This termination policy has made a lot of lazy people looking for fast money avoid Amazon these days. It’s a blessing to any honest author out there.

I have been a freelance writer for more than 3 years i can confidently tell you that writing a good book no be beans.

In evb2000 dairy, i once saw him mention not wanting to publish a book because he wasn’t sure of the quality. That’s you need to know about how important a book quality is.

My mentor made me understand that the key to becoming profitable is finding a good topic. Then i got to realize to find a good topic is not easy ooo, it can take weeks.

A good topic + a well written book = Happy Customers = Positive Reviews = More money


Happy Amazon, Happy Customers, & Happy You

SuperOnyi:




I respect your opinion. No reasonable company is against AI as long as you provide value. Even Amazon uses AI, they're against people churning out nonsense with AI. Dude, I don't want to brag but I have met with a lot of big publishers in this industry, people making $10k to $100k and they all use AI.

What about my first account? Was I also churning out books with AI? I take my time to write with AI, I use the internet for research, I'm a writer too, and I'm sure you can tell by how I write.

The truth is, once Amazon's bot got their eyes on you, it's almost impossible to beat them unless you have huge resources: buy new phones, new details, etc.

I say this with confidence, I have even spoken to ilegendD privately about this issue. I have spoken to Legalnaira, EMB, and so on, on this. These are guys making tens of thousands of dollars, and they know I know my stuff.

Let m shock you: I created an account with my sister's phone, sim card, and everything since June, I haven't verified the account and it's still standing. I know someone managing 13 accounts and he has made tens of thousands of dollars from Amazon, usually with trends (risky).

You might be safe today thinking Amazon is the Never-Do-Wrong Guy until you experience it. If the bot mistakenly blocks your book, once or twice, then the next books you publish will be blocked and rejected.

I'm still coming back to Amazon but through my sister's account, publishdrive, and other aggregate platforms. And whether they like it or not, they will pay me royalties every month even though I stopped publishing . AI or no AI.

Every G in this industry knows how much I was divided when it came to AI, I documented this in my diaries. But now, when dealing with these American corporations who do not care about us, give value as fast as possible to make enough money asap.

They might decide to replace us soon like they have done to their staff with AI. Be wise!

Edit: There's even an option to click on whether your book is AI generated or assisted. I click on them even if I do most of the work. All of the books rejected by Amazon are live on Barnes and Noble. Once I'm done with YouTube, I will make time for Barnes and Noble and Google play book. Amazon isn't the beginning and end of publishing. I know people making thousands of dollars on other platforms. The days of Amazon making me broke are over. I successfully put out 9 books and those books will find my YouTube journey . They are slaves.

dreamxhaser:
Bro!

I also respect your points because we all have a different perspective on life.

Regarding the bolded point: I have followed your diary, and I think you mentioned using a profitable author's name or something like that in keywords. Then you received a warning, which led you to take the book down or something, but later the account was terminated. That way, I am sure you broke the rules.

The second and third accounts, I'm not sure about, but I think it revolves around using the same phone, service provider, or laptop to log in. You've been blacklisted, so I expect your account to get blocked, especially as it is a new account.

Just because guys are getting away with it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. You might not be lucky. I mean, in my years of freelancing, I've seen people's accounts get terminated recently on Fiverr for crimes they committed years ago.

You should look at the bigger picture, like, are you trying to do this long term or short term?

If short term, take the shortcut route and cash out as much as possible, then start something else, like a physical business.

But if you intend to do it long-term, you'd better do everything the right way.

About Amazon asking if you generated the book with AI or not, let me ask you: As a buyer, if the book you are buying is AI generated, won't you just go to the AI and generate the book directly instead of paying?

What I have come to understand is that these buyers can get all this information from blogs, YouTube, and AI. But they choose to buy because they believe you have value to offer as a professional.

Therefore, I am very certain Amazon is just gathering information to build their AI models, build an ai book generator or something. Then they will push AI-generated books aside or even ban them. But one thing is sure: they can't push human publishers aside because people will always buy a human-written book over an AI-generated book.

Before we started, my mentor explained all these to me, he mentioned that over ten years, a-lot of his peers who were frustrated out of the business. He was able to stay afloat by doing things the right way and treating it like a real life business not some hustle.

Maybe i am not supposed to mention this, but this is someone that has mentored the likes of EVB and others people we look up to. The evidence is there in their success that diligent and hard work pays on the long run.

You mentioned this cooperations don't care about us. Do most people care about the cooperations when they try to abuse things? It’s a dog eat dog world we live in.

Personally i plan on doing this for 10 to 15 years. But it’s not like i am going to relay on it over the span of those years. I intend to build my community with time and start selling on my website. But for now let’s hit the ground running.

SuperOnyi:
For now, I'm back to YouTube to milk it.

franchasng:
Yes oh, I am one of the early birds in most money making methods people are doing today. I can say this with confidence.


I wrote mostly about relationship, alternative health tips, alternative medicine tips, money making tips and tourism topics about Africa and Nigeria.


My writing, blogging and Youtube content creation really helped me survive my struggling years after university and shortly after nysc. Unfortunately my YouTube channel have been permanently banned from monetization.


If I knew writing and publishing books online would earn me the kind of passive income it does now, I would have written and published at least 100 books back then when my brain was still functioning well when it comes to writing lol.


I advice every youth to learn to create contents and put them out there, as many as possible now. Make sure they are original and informative and you maybe building yourself a lifetime stream of income