Is Your Amazon Account Secure?

By Marcy Kennedy, @MarcyKennedy

Part of the Indie Author Series

As independent authors, one of the challenges we face is that everything lands on us. Even when we hire freelancers to design our covers or edit our work, we make the final decisions. Even when we reach the point where we might hire a personal assistant, we’re still in charge.

That means we have to consider certain things that traditionally published authors never have to think about. One of those things is the security of our retailer accounts.

Our retailer accounts contain the information necessary for us to receive our payments for book sales. If those accounts are hacked, the hacker can change the bank account information so that our money ends up in their bank. Not only that, but we instantly lose access to all our books and we can’t upload new ones. That alone can be disastrous for an indie author.
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