What's Up With KDP?
Gratuitous Old Tools Pic The lead photo is an innovative answer to how to store the irons for wooden plow planes. While cleaning up my images archive I came upon this old one from I don't know where. Now on to the KDP subject. About a year ago Amazon KDP decided to go crazy on spam publishers. Spam publishers are those who grab thousands of free pdf files, run them through custom software and spit out low quality "books". KDP's answer was to label anything even slightly resembling spam books as Under Review. Rather than attempt to deal with the KDP customer service rep John or Amy (out of New Delhi or Mumbai), I pulled a bunch of titles into archived. Last week I decided to un-archive ten titles in cold storage. With the exception of a few having poorly reproduced text, everything went live. That explains why you are seeing a bunch of new/old books popping up here. In the interregenum, my work on a number of early Japanese architectural texts continues. My site outpu...