A third!?! And what if this reader never brought this to your attention? Was the cover similar? There could be a great many of these pirated manuscripts buried in Amazon out there.
How'd you find the third? Was it by a fan again or Amazon?
I would have hoped that when Amazon does whatever it does to scan and approve our books, they'd detect the same manuscript. But maybe I'm hoping too much for a positive side to AI. I hope all this gets cleared up for you.
Yes, another fan left me a message overnight. I'd looked, but not found the other pair.
I always thought the scan and approve process was looking for duplicated books, especially after the KU fiasco.
But the book of mine in question is in KU, and has been copied 100%, and yet, Amazon didn't notice multiple copies of it being uploaded from a different account.
Nor have the bots which should be looking for KU rorts found it as well.
It's troubling to think that this kind of blatant piracy can go for nearly a month on Amazon without Amazon finding it.
Now I'm wondering if someone chose my book as a test case to see how long it would take for Amazon to react, if at all, or if the same thing has been done across a wide range of authors with multiple series.
The only saving grace so far is the fact only a single copy has a rank, nearly 2 mill, so they've not exactly been selling. I can't tell if they're in KU or not, but the rank suggests this is not a KU rort, or at least, isn't yet.