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.

Quote from: TimothyEllis on March 15, 2025, 11:08:44 PM

Is this from the KDP dashboard, or Author Central?

I only make changes on the KDP dashboard. 

They must have played with the editor again. A while back when they changed it, it removed all the formatting on everything. I'm still getting goof reports and finding I need to totally redo the blurb because of that, and it was years ago now.

My advice is go simple.

Copy the entire blurb to notepad, which will remove all formatting, delete it off KDP, then copy and paste back from notepad. Then reapply any bolding and formatting.

Most likely, you've got some bad characters in there somewhere hidden, and you'll never find them.

Is this from the KDP dashboard, or Author Central?

I only make changes on the KDP dashboard.