Don’t expect to find Castalia House books on Kindle anytime soon.
Hello,
During a recent audit of your account, we found content and/or activities that are in violation of our Terms and Conditions. Therefore, we are closing your account effective immediately.
Examples include attempting to publish books that violate our Content Guidelines.
As part of the termination process:
- We will close your KDP account
- You’re no longer eligible to receive any outstanding royalties
- You’ll no longer have access to your account. This includes, editing your titles, viewing your reports and accessing any other information within your account
- All of your published titles will be removed from sale on Amazon
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The action that was in violation of Amazon’s Terms and Conditions was attempting to publish the Kindle edition of A THRONE OF BONES. They kept asking us to provide a letter from the previous publisher and ignoring both a) the fact that we are the previous publisher and b) we are the publisher of both the paperback and hardcover editions of the book. It was particularly strange, because they accepted, and published, both SUMMA ELVETICA and A SEA OF SKULLS.
This isn’t a problem; Amazon’s sales have been irrelevant to us for the last two years and we were only beginning to put some of our books back up on Kindle in order to make it easier on people who are still unaware that Amazon is systematically destroying the book industry. But it underlines how absolutely and utterly foolish it is for authors or publishers to rely upon Amazon to sell their books anymore.
Castalia will not only survive, but continue to thrive. That which failed to kill us only serves to make us stronger and more independent.
Also, due to a minor technical issue, if you’re buying something on the Arkhaven store, choose the VISA/Mastercard option, not the Credit Card option, until further notice.
