Amazon removes a book from his Kindle Store due to excessive punctuation – MetroNews

Too dashes and the book is removed. The writer Graeme Reynolds fell naked when he received an email from Amazon (or more precisely Kindle Direct Publishing service) Friday, December 12. This British author published account of author and then sells his works online, especially on the Kindle Store, the online bookstore Amazon. Since March 2013, there also was selling a new, “High Moor 2: Moonstruck” which had received no less than 123 opinion. But guess what: following a complaint from a reader, Amazon has warned that it was suspending sales of the book … because of excessive punctuation, says The Telegraph . Specifically, the book contains too many hyphens.

No, this is not a joke. In his email, Amazon says that he has received complaints about too frequent use hyphens: they were detected in a little more than 100 words on the 90,000 that his new account and it “has a negative impact on readability of the story, “said the merchant site.

Amazon gave him 40 days to remove the hyphens from his book

The man now has 40 days to change the text – it has published for the sum of 1000 pounds (800 euros) – and fewer hyphens. If it does not comply with this request, “High Moor 2: Moonstruck” will be permanently deleted from the Kindle Store. Graeme Reynolds was beautiful to argue that hyphens were part of the English language, the argument was no response at Amazon, who stands his ground.

For the writer, the fact that Amazon is interfering in his writing is totally unfair. In a post on his blog, he wrote: “This would be comical if it did not cost me money [...] And then what soon we will be penalized for using the words of more than two syllables.? “.dropoff window Since her post was published, the case caused a stir in Britain and … Amazon restored the sale of “High Moor 2: Moonstruck” in its Kindle Store. This is what is called a “bad buzz”.

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