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The Luminant - First Three Tales
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I see your good intentions, but automatically showing all my "other" books (same books, dead versions) from Amazon without asking me seems like a truly bad idea.
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Now, yikes! I see that you showed me as the author of 15 books -- basically the same four books three times plus the compendia (which Amazon ridiculously calls a "boxed set" for an ebook with no box) of all three.
When I tried to fix this using your tools, I managed to hide the first seies title, but visitors see the second (now draft) of the new title and the link takes them to a page saying sorry, you can't buy it. Your system doesn't seem to offer a way to hide that version of the series, which is now in draft.
I can see that your auto-upload is a good option for big-time authors with a lot of books. It is a truly terrible idea for writers with mistakes and failures and some laughable early work.
In fact, I am truly relieved that I had the sense to create a new Amazon account for these books after publishing the worse-selling and worst-reviewed "how-to" book for screenwriters in the entire history of western civilization (which, if I had not been so dumb about the pessitimstic way I wrote it and presented the data, would have been a pretty good short book). So at least readers of this series won't see "Be That One In A Hundred."