Misleading. They'll use a free ISBN in the Standard… They'll use a free ISBN in the Standard publishing package to publish on Amazon which will limit your book within Amazon platform only, meaning you cannot publish your book on other platforms. The only way is to delist your book listing on Amazon, all reviews will be gone, if you want to publish your book on other platforms in the future. The salesperson will not tell you that and that's misleading. I was very disappointed at their service. Would not recommend ever.

I was guided towards self-publishing I was guided towards self-publishing, one action I've never done before. This is useful for beginners. But it has taken a long time, within the 6 weeks promised, but I had to wait some days for hours, without any call or a brief message like:"I'll call you tomorrow". This management was difficult to me

My experience with Amazon Publishing My name is Betty Bockoras. My friend, Nora Brickel Wilson and I worked together in writing, "Mama's Gift." After we finished, I was faced with the problem of where to get it published. Then someone referred Amazon Publishing. Problem solved! Still, I proceeded carefully. I had been taken advantage of by a previous publishing company with a different book. They had charged me ten times what Amazon was charging - and with unsatisfactory results. But Amazon proved to be the real thing! They assigned me a "Project Manager," named Mark Bennett to work with me. He was very patient and kind as he answered all my questions, and there were many. First he guided me through doing the cover and then the story, with nine pictures inserted. I am very pleased with the finished product, which is now for sale on Amazon.com, both paperback and eBook.

Don't waste your money This nightmare began on 2-28-23 with a phone conversation with Clyde D. Smith, a phone salesman for Amazonpublishing profs.com. He told me that for $199 Amazon would produce a book cover (front and back), format the book and sell the book on Amazon in eBook, paperback, and hardcover formats. (For a short limited time only.) (I never received any of this in writing.) After paying my $199 was assigned my first of three Account Managers. He lasted less than a week and was involved in an accident, and my second Account Manager was assigned, and he lasted two or three weeks before they replaced him with my third Account Manager. I was contacted again on 2-28-23, to tell me that they would have to have another $299 for formating, proofing, editing, and formating. I argued vehemently with my then Account Assistant Jennifer Stark that I had already paid for this. She insisted that I did not. But I had no paperwork to support what I had to say, so I paid the additional $299. Then Jennifer became my third Account Rep (she later told me that I was only one of 500 accounts that she was overseeing. I have been fighting with her now for the next five months. I'd send an email and two to 10 days later I'd hear back from her. I received a number of proposed proofs from her. I read them as best I could, but the were so literate and full of misspelled words, mixed up names, and impossible to make heads or tails of what they were saying. It took me more than eight attempts to get them to get the spelling of my name correct. I am not exaggerating when I say that this proofing looked like it was done by a third grader, and clearly not anyone who had English as their first language. That I finally just gave up on it and told her to just publish the damn thing. I wanted my book to measure 4 inchs by 7 inches, but I was told that wasn't possible. (Even though I have owned and do own hundreds to 4 X 7 paperback books. ( They also kept sending these emails in formats that I could not open.) Anyone considering publishing via amzpublishingprofs.com should not expect to deal with anyone that is not a foreigner. The final straw was when I was notified that my books would NOT received Amazon Optimization unless I paid another $1,800. I said no. My book has been live since June 27th, and I have not had even one sale in that time. I only gave them one star is because there is not a negative number of stars available.

I am giving my team a 2 I am giving my team a 2, for many reasons. I employed AMZ in late November 2023 to publish and promote my new book. I am a second time author and first time "publisher." With a "Ton" of promises I paid $2,700 for the publishing, website, marketing for 3 months and a laundry list of promises. As the process evolved the project manager came to me with extra charges that could not be avoided. Charges such as web hosting. I use a web hosting service for my business that costs me $12 a month, AMZ's price was over $100 a month. Is my website being seen by anyone, no. Is there marketing to push my website, I paid for it, no. The team suggested a trailer. It was included in my original purchase. I did the voice over then provided the video for the trailer, they changed it. They created their own version and I had to insist that they went back to what I wanted. Upon completion of the trailer I asked where it would be seen? If I did a search on AMZ for a thriller (which is a category my book might fit into) I would see trailers from other authors. I then paid to have my trailer on those pages. It still hasn't shown up and it is 2 months later. Then I opened one of my competitors books and their trailer showed up on their home page, this was January 15 when my marketing began. I have yet to see any evidence that the marketing I am paying for is showing up anywhere. I asked what it would cost to put my trailer on my home page, they gave me a price, I paid for it, that was 2 months ago and they still have not figured out how to get it on my home page. Then they insisted I do pay per click to get noticed. So I pay $500 a month and a search for thrillers, mystery got me to page 30 before giving up as I did not see my book in 30 pages. What am I paying for? And, why? If it's not being seen in the first few pages it's not worth it. So then they told me I should try directed marketing and that launched last week, where? I still cannot find any evidence of that either. I know the 5 people who ordered my book. Yeah, 2 months of advertising and it hasn't reached a single buyer. Not one! What am I paying for? Why am I paying anything. I am not directing people to a website no one will ever find, why am I paying for a website? Then I reread the first chapter and found a typo that wasn't even a word. The editor didn't even find a misspelling of a word that isn't a word. When I asked for it to be fixed they wanted to charge me $600 for that.