Thank you to all who vote.
The purpose of this poll is to identify fellow authors who are willing to collaborate (work together!) on a fair-minded solution to the bookstuffing problem that doesn't harm legitimate writers of longer books. It's not enough to merely claim that the page cap lowering idea is flawed. We need to come up with a superior plan, and I am volunteering to organize a small team of smart, positive, conscientious folks who would be willing to brainstorm on ideas to address this challenge.
If you'd like to participate, I've started a Facebook group where we of a like mind on this topic can work together to the benefit of all legitimate KU writers. You can apply to join the group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KUSolutionsGroup/
Is anyone here in the thread qualified to really detail what the makeup of these stuffed books looks like? Are they basically, in essence, making multiple bundles with rearranged content, in addition to the individual titles? Are they really shoving 500 pages of recipes into the books (I thought I read that somewhere). I've never read through one, but I know many of the folks here on Kboards have investigated this problem in far more detail than I have.
If anyone here can provide technical information about the architecture of the stuffed books, we could really use you in the group. I'd be happy to get an organized analysis project started that we could present to Amazon to help them root these things out in an automated fashion. I would also be willing to contribute some capital towards hiring a developer to write some code, as a prototype system for flagging potential violators. If we take a project management approach to surgically removing the bad actors from the mix, we might be able to solve this thing fairly quickly, and no legitimate author suffers harm.
I can't do it all by myself, but if some of you guys are willing to get behind a fact-finding initiative to get this off the ground, I can organize the moving parts into place, and if necessary, go about raising any capital needed to develop a solution and lobby Amazon to give it a serious look.
I'm all-in on making this thing happen. Would any of you be interested in joining the FB group to brainstorm and offer input, or better yet, volunteer some useful skills that might be needed for this kind of project? Again, this is the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/KUSolutionsGroup/ All who are willing to roll their sleeves up and dedicate a little bit of time to this endeavor are welcome. More than welcome: you might all end up heroes to the indie author community, if we can pull this off. Or we could fail horribly and come up empty, but I don't think that's how this will go.
Here is that link again:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KUSolutionsGroup/
Hope to see you in there. I will check to see who has applied in the morning and we can get the conversation started right away.
The purpose of this poll is to identify fellow authors who are willing to collaborate (work together!) on a fair-minded solution to the bookstuffing problem that doesn't harm legitimate writers of longer books. It's not enough to merely claim that the page cap lowering idea is flawed. We need to come up with a superior plan, and I am volunteering to organize a small team of smart, positive, conscientious folks who would be willing to brainstorm on ideas to address this challenge.
If you'd like to participate, I've started a Facebook group where we of a like mind on this topic can work together to the benefit of all legitimate KU writers. You can apply to join the group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KUSolutionsGroup/
Is anyone here in the thread qualified to really detail what the makeup of these stuffed books looks like? Are they basically, in essence, making multiple bundles with rearranged content, in addition to the individual titles? Are they really shoving 500 pages of recipes into the books (I thought I read that somewhere). I've never read through one, but I know many of the folks here on Kboards have investigated this problem in far more detail than I have.
If anyone here can provide technical information about the architecture of the stuffed books, we could really use you in the group. I'd be happy to get an organized analysis project started that we could present to Amazon to help them root these things out in an automated fashion. I would also be willing to contribute some capital towards hiring a developer to write some code, as a prototype system for flagging potential violators. If we take a project management approach to surgically removing the bad actors from the mix, we might be able to solve this thing fairly quickly, and no legitimate author suffers harm.
I can't do it all by myself, but if some of you guys are willing to get behind a fact-finding initiative to get this off the ground, I can organize the moving parts into place, and if necessary, go about raising any capital needed to develop a solution and lobby Amazon to give it a serious look.
I'm all-in on making this thing happen. Would any of you be interested in joining the FB group to brainstorm and offer input, or better yet, volunteer some useful skills that might be needed for this kind of project? Again, this is the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/KUSolutionsGroup/ All who are willing to roll their sleeves up and dedicate a little bit of time to this endeavor are welcome. More than welcome: you might all end up heroes to the indie author community, if we can pull this off. Or we could fail horribly and come up empty, but I don't think that's how this will go.
Here is that link again:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KUSolutionsGroup/
Hope to see you in there. I will check to see who has applied in the morning and we can get the conversation started right away.