Author Alert: Amazon to begin screening self-published works for commercial viability

Amazon.com’s publishing arms CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing will soon be more selective, a la the traditional publishers in New York.

Using software that evolved from research by a group of computer scientists from Stony Brook University in New York, CS and KDP will analyze each submission; if the submission doesn’t pass muster in terms of potential for literary or commercial success, then it will be rejected. The author then has the option of revising the manuscript and resubmitting...