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KDP authors despair — Amazon can’t get a grip on ebook returns
Is your KDP dashboard showing above-average sales today? Don’t rejoice too soon. You could be in the red tomorrow.
Yesterday was another one of those days. By lunchtime, my KDP dashboard was already showing earnings of almost 80 euros, and I was very happy about that. I generally sell a lot more on Sundays than on the other days of the week, but these figures were too good to be true, even for a Sunday.
So I should have known that the big end was yet to come.
A few hours later, my sales counter suddenly stood at minus 16 copies. I only had just over six euros left of my previous earnings.
Today, I downloaded the detailed sales report from the previous day to see how big the problem was this time. When I saw what had happened, I became extremely angry.
26 books from a single series were returned. All had been bought and returned on the same day.
By midnight, I had at least made up to 78.99 euros. This is a depressing result for me every day of the week. By the way, I owe most of my daily income to Kindle Unlimited.
