Since then I've had to deal with lots of pirated editions on Amazon Kindle, Nook, Kobo etc. On 9/22/20 I reported 2 more pirated copies on Kindle, and they gave me a report claim number (@AmazonHelp) and then ignored me, as they still make money off pirates. 2/?
— Martha Wells (@marthawells1) January 1, 2021
Then yesterday I got a "quality issues" complaint on it and had to drop everything to deal with that (the reader reported archaic words as typos along with a few OCR errors). I got it fixed and now Amazon is saying they have an infringement claim filed against ME on the book. 3/?
— Martha Wells (@marthawells1) January 1, 2021
This is very common on Amazon. I don't know how self-published authors cope with all the theft and harassment, frankly. The theft and harassment aimed at traditionally published authors is bad enough with a publisher supporting you. 5/?
— Martha Wells (@marthawells1) January 1, 2021