My guess would be this is an overzealous AI-generated content detector. Amazon has been flooded with low quality AI generated books in the past ~year, and has been removing a lot of it. My guess would be they're still tweaking their algorithms as folks generating books change their tactics. Hopefully a human will respond soon!
Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook
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#32I'm gonna guess their language police bot took issue with the word "bastard".
What about the book. "How to take a shit in the woods"
https://www.amazon.com/How-Shit-Woods-3rd-Environmentally/dp...
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How does Amazon handle warranties, especially in a year or two? Pray tell.
Amazon is a multibillion dollar company that has a consistent track record of prioritizing customer satisfaction ever since its inception, as does PayPal - admittedly though at the expense of merchants, where we've seen more than enough horror stories on HN about these two companies. Besides: The chances of either of them going belly-up are faaaaar lower than for Joe Random's webshop or, heaven forbid, physical store…
> Amazon is a multibillion dollar company that has a consistent track record of prioritizing customer satisfaction ever since its inception
A massive issue missing from this statement are the problems around fakes which has grown and is unaddressed by Amazon. Not such an issue with books though.
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#34I understand the obsession with being on Amazon, but can we please normalize selling elsewhere? The internet is a vast expanse. Why do we think Amazon is the end all be all? I do not understand this.
All the customers are there and the company has perhaps spent more time than any other figuring out how to sell books to people. They're better at it than everyone else.
So not much authors can do.
As a consumer, I invest time and money to try buy elsewhere (and boycott Amazon) when I can, but it's not always easy. Also, I'm aware that these kind of Don Quixote boycots seldomly have an impact macro economically. Nevertheless, I keep trying...
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#36> Reaching a human at Amazon is a Kafkaesque experience that we haven't yet managed to do. It indeed is, I had the same experience. Good idea to asking here, you might just find some
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For consumers, it's easy: Amazon offers a consistent effortless experience. They already have all your payment and shipping data, so no need to create accounts and passwords at some random site with unknown security standards, you know what to expect in terms of shipping vs whatever that random shop is using, no need to worry if the shop will be around in a year or two to honor warranties, no worry about bullshit sur…
How does Amazon handle warranties, especially in a year or two? Pray tell.
In my experience: first 2 or 3 months you can send it back np. After 2 years they say your warranty is forfeit. Which isn't true if you can reasonably expect the product to last longer (if it is an expensive one). In my case the battery was damaged due to bogus firmware update and they refused to deal with it, citing warranty with seller is exhausted (untrue). They said I should go to the manufacturer instead. I got "lucky" there: they couldn't repair it and replacement would take 3 months so they proposed sending me a newer revision for an extra price of a little bit over 100 EUR. Result is I will actively buy the product elsewhere if it is an expensive one.
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#38My guess would be this is an overzealous AI-generated content detector. Amazon has been flooded with low quality AI generated books in the past ~year, and has been removing a lot of it. My guess would be they're still tweaking their algorithms as folks generating books change their tactics. Hopefully a human will respond soon!
That would be my guess too. A few months back they announced a ML model to clean up the reviews, but I'd argue that it is a lost battle; there is so much human-made and now AI-made garbage already. A solution might be a full deletion and then a real identity verification for reviewers.
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#40I understand the obsession with being on Amazon, but can we please normalize selling elsewhere? The internet is a vast expanse. Why do we think Amazon is the end all be all? I do not understand this.
If there was another store that had all books amazon had, with a Kindle like experience on all possible platforms and e-readers, I might consider that.
The only other store that I know of is Rakuten and that’s by far a worse experience.