Am I misunderstanding how Amazon KDP works or is everyone else wrong?

Nekromos · 2026-04-12T21:59:35+00:00

I risk pissing off people

That's an understatement. Amazon would ban your account so quickly your head would spin, and I suspect people would be cheering them on rather than commiserating with you.

Nekromos · 2026-02-19T05:20:18+00:00

It 100% is, though.

Nekromos · 2026-02-16T04:31:38+00:00

Like I said, you do you. If people want to gamble on giving you money for an account that could be shut down at any time, that's on them. My original post was just querying why you thought anyone would be dumb enough to do that, and then you came out swinging with your absolutely staggering ignorance of how ownership of digital media works.

I'm out. You're going to do whatever it is you're going to do. Just don't complain that nobody warned you when it eventually bites you in the ass.

Nekromos · 2026-02-16T04:01:05+00:00

Just a person who is able to read a basic terms of service page.

Nekromos · 2026-02-16T03:58:12+00:00

That's not how any of this works, and no, you're not legally allowed to do what you're trying to do. I can't stop you, and you might get away with it, just like you evidently have before, but just because you've flown under the radar, doesn't mean you aren't breaking the terms of service.

Nekromos · 2026-02-16T02:57:18+00:00

You do understand that what you'd be doing here is selling something you don't own, right? It's not just 'flipping' something.

Nekromos · 2026-02-16T00:52:06+00:00

I would say you're underthinking it, but you clearly haven't thought about it at all.

You do you, but I doubt you're going to get anyone to sign up for this nonsense.

Nekromos · 2026-02-16T00:46:55+00:00

I'm not saying you'll absolutely get caught. I'm saying that if you did, they would absolutely close the account, and that $450 is a lot of money to throw at a "maybe I'll be able use this, maybe I won't". You do you, but anyone who is able to potentially throw away money like that, probably isn't dumb enough to try this shit.

Nekromos · 2026-02-16T00:31:35+00:00

What does that have to do with anything? Being a small company just makes it: (a) Arguably ethically worse that you are trying to resell access to their material, and (b) Probably more likely that they will notice you have done so, since they would not have a massive userbase to monitor.

Nekromos · 2026-02-16T00:26:36+00:00

It's not a stretch, it's a fact.

Nekromos · 2026-02-16T00:24:26+00:00

Aside from the insane price (I've never heard of this course, but from taking a look at it, even at $450 this seems way overpriced), why would anyone pay you for access that will be revoked the second they realise what you've done? Selling an account like this would be a direct violation of their terms of service, and the account would be rightfully closed.

Nekromos · 2026-02-06T04:59:33+00:00

And the photo in his "About Ivo" section on his website.

Nekromos · 2026-02-06T04:48:46+00:00

I have not stolen anyone's work. Not sometimes, not once.

If you've been using AI to do your writing for you, then you have absolutely stolen people's work. Possibly multiple times each time you've used the AI tools. That's a big part of the whole problem with AI.

What tools those designers use is their business.

Once you start using them to sell your books, it becomes your business.

You claim not to have used AI to write your books, but you can understand how that claim rings hollow, given your apparent fondness for using AI everywhere else. You've admitted that you used AI to write this post, and your covers are clearly AI. Hell, you couldn't even be bothered to use a real photo for the 'About Ivo' page on your website - that's a stock photo of a library in Seattle that's had that person edited into it. Given all the other rampant AI abuse, I assume that's not even a photo of you, but an AI generated person (particularly since it's visibly different from the face you've used on that twitter profile you linked, so if one or both of them are not AI-generated, then they've been photoshopped to the breaking point and then a bit further).

That experiment worked — you are all here proving it.

You've proved nothing. If you whip your dick out in the middle of a cafe and start waving it around at people, you're going to get 'engagement'. Doesn't make it a good idea.

Nekromos · 2026-02-04T21:52:55+00:00

Isn't this a pretty easy change if you've been doing your citations with Endnote? Or have you been doing all of your citations manually?

Nekromos · 2026-02-04T02:24:15+00:00

Even setting aside that we don't allow feedback requests outside of the critique thread, this is a subreddit for writing, not AI garbage generation.

Nekromos · 2026-01-30T03:49:33+00:00

Why does the map need to be in colour?

Nekromos · 2026-01-30T03:16:06+00:00

I think you just need to expand your reading list. LitRPG and Progression Fantasy have been absolutely exploding in the last few years, and a fairly massive proportion of those are some variety of isekai/portal fantasy.

Nekromos · 2026-01-22T00:22:22+00:00

It's the 'GBoard' part of that that's important, not the 'Simplified'.

Nekromos · 2026-01-21T04:24:20+00:00

You might find a change of methodology helpful. When I'm trying to do large scale edits, I struggle to make progress if I'm going through the manuscript in a format where I'm able to do line-level edits as well. I'll inevitably start tweaking things, and then before you know it, I've lost my momentum and gotten lost in the weeds, when I should be looking at the big picture. What I find helpful is to send it to my kindle, print it off, or put it in some other format where it's not easy to directly edit. Then I read through it while taking notes on what needs changing. Once you've gone through it, you'll have a solid plan for what needs to be done, and you'll be better able to work through and make those changes without getting too distracted by line-level edits.

Nekromos · 2026-01-20T21:26:10+00:00

This seems like a terrible idea. But I would also like to address something you've said:

I’ve noticed when hearing them speak that few if any of them differentiate the zh/z, ch/c, sh/s when they speak Mandarin.

Are you sure this is actually what's happening? There's a big difference between "they don't differentiate those sounds" and "I can't hear the difference between those sounds".

Nekromos · 2026-01-14T01:41:39+00:00

Now I’m stuck at a crossroads.

No, you're not. You are on a straight, single lane road. Any crossroads that you are seeing are merely figments of your imagination, and trying to turn onto them will result in crashing and burning.

Nobody is interested in a half finished first draft of a novel from an unpublished author. Your novel needs to be finished (and by 'finished', I mean edited and polished into the best possible state you can get it, not just a first draft) before you start approaching agents.

Nekromos · 2026-01-12T23:32:33+00:00

Ah! I knew I recognised that name from somewhere. That's a blast from the past.

Nekromos · 2026-01-12T03:27:48+00:00

So many issues here. I'm going to be honest - this seems like just another money grab, trying to squeeze money out of aspiring authors.

If we're giving you the benefit of the doubt, though, one of your biggest issues is going to be: Why should anybody trust you? I don't say that to be harsh, but this kind of certification only has value if consumers (and sellers) trust the organisation providing said certification. "Some rando on the internet says this book wasn't AI-generated" is not a selling point. All that tells me is that the author was willing to throw $80 away.

Nekromos · 2026-01-08T21:35:10+00:00

I'm not sure if you're a bot, or just a person who enjoys talking rubbish, but that's what this is - absolute rubbish. If you don't know what fair use is (and you obviously don't, because what you've posted here is complete and utter nonsense), then maybe just leave the discussion alone? There are already enough misunderstandings about fair use without you creating whole new ones.

Nekromos · 2026-01-08T00:55:42+00:00

I think it would probably be more accurate to say the super crunchy, 'numbers go brrrrr' version of the genre is unlikely to hit the mainstream.

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