Author Finds Flaws In Kindle Auto Pricing

Author James Crawford has found some flaws in using Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform. After noticing a huge spike in downloads over night for his novel Blood Soaked & Contagious, he went to see what was going on with his book.

It turns out that Amazon dropped the price of his zombie novel to free, after finding the book cheaper on another site, as per the company’s terms. The problem is that Amazon was wrong about the other listing.

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