Brian W Kelly

FTC Case Brian W Kelly

Everybody knows that your business will be severely punished if you decide to mess with Amazon, even if you are 100% right. Lets Go Publish (LGP) was blocked perhaps because of the same reason this next guy was blocked: LGP used a "widely available facts" which are a lot of facts about the topic the author was writing about. The creativity LGP adds comes from the presentation not the facts. Here is an analogy I got on the Internet: "IF YOU WRITE ABOUT THE MONA LISA YOU WILL ALSO NEED WIDELY AVAILABLE PICTURES BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE ONLY ONES AVAILABLE AT ALL!!! THE LOUVRE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO TAKE YOUR OWN PICTURES, SO NO BOOKS ABOUT THE MONA LISA Try dealing with an Amazon reviewer who must have a quota for rejected (blocked) manuscripts. They are very matter of fact and they will not tell you specifically what is wrong with your submission. Then, you make an argument and if they respond at all, they do not address the points you make. Instead they tell you that the book will be "blocked" in five days after their evaluation. By the way, blocked is an Amazon term for censored. Some authors such as Brian W. Kelly publish their books only on Amazon. After nine books being blocked this year alone because he dared write about the COVID-19, Kelly is asking: "is it possible for me to publish my books without using Amazon at all? Well, maybe! He is exploring Ingram and others. Writing nine books that may take a month apiece, and have Amazon censor them block them because (A) they were about COVID, or (B) because they contained facts that were also on the Internet is unfair and a restraint of trade. And so, LGP filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. Why does Amazon block LGP books? I am thinking maybe because they are written about conservative topics. Kelly is being censored for ideological reasons, But, Amazon won't give the real reason. They have no phone number. There is nobody to talk to. I have only the option of sending emails that often they ignore and then poof, I have a blocked censored and have to start another. They can say whatever they want and there's no accountability. But, it hurts my business taking the time to argue with them when all I am looking for is a company to print and sell my books. I do my own copyediting. WLGP is my publisher not Amazon. Amazon has been given no rights to get into my content? See the rest of this book to see how I challenged them with my FTC complaint.