It would be nice if Amazon had a preview mode for that.

I send my book orders via a courier service (our postal service is just about non existent  ) I now get regular emails letting me know there is a parcel waiting for me to collect. I get them almost daily. I keep blocking them but they pop up from another bogus address. 

 

I've been getting the one for the toll road fees. Apparently I am in severe violation and about to be arrested, or worse.

Also, I have been removed from the group. Wow. That's so sad.

In my state, we get something in the mail if we get on a toll road, with the fine to be paid. The state doesn't have my email, nor my cell phone number, so there's no way for them to contact me that way. I've reported it as spam, but it keeps coming.

I used to get texts about some property near me, if I still wanted to sell it. Always using some random name for me, and for them. I've driven by that property, and if it's actually listed to someone, they'll never sell it. It's full of rock, goes straight up about sixty feet, and in no way, shape or form would ever be sold. I'm actually pretty sure the state owns it.

I can get that about holding your book in your hands being a thrill. The thing is, most people focus on getting all the things, and they can't even get an ebook right. They redo a print version over and over, and complain about how Amazon won't let them change anything. New editions all over. Blocked books everywhere.

Most people out there, they aren't like us, who learned this stuff, who understood that print was a different thing. They want "AI" audio books, and someone else to just let them fix stuff without having to use up ISBNs, and they think everyone wants their hardcopy blank journal.

There's basically two different groups "self publishing". One learns how to write, they study how self publishing works. They have basic knowledge about what would sell.

The other is the get rich quick schemer group, who thinks uploading whatever fell out of their head is going to make them rich by tomorrow, who doesn't want to learn anything, or spend any time or effort or money, and expects others to tell them "do this, that, and then this other thing", and the money is going to just drown them.

The first group, we can understand, the second is just the growing flood of people who are out for only the money with no grasp of reality. Nothing you say will help them.