How to Game Amazon at Their Public Domain Publishing.

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Winning the self-publishing race can mean gaming the Publishing Godzilla.

(Meaning: you can get around Amazon's Public Domain policies and still be legal in your agreements with them.)

You might have peculiar books which Amazon will query, but everyone else will readily accept. So how to get them published in spite of being blocked for no good reason?

This is Advanced Binder Marketing Theory. And it can bring you extra earned income.

You'll only seem to get in trouble when the distributor won't accept them. Amazon may do this on their own whim, by asking you to prove the date it was first published and the author's date of death. They don't check on every single PD book you publish. (My tests have shown it to be about half.) Just give them what they want, as I've covered elsewhere. Your books are a little delayed, but they get approved if you do only submit public domain books and can prove it.

They can also simply block any binder which contains a certain book - which i…