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Amazon Pulled the "On The Pen" Book, Because, And I Quote, It's "Disappointing Content"
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im not going to watch the whole 20 min video so i cant speak to this situation, but for context this is a guy with a popular glp1 podcast that is always pushing for more affordable pharma options/availability. Isn’t a proponent of UGL so surprising that Amazon would pull the book over content.
Doing some googling and digging around the KDP subreddit, it sounds like anything that includes medical claims tends to get removed.
I'd guess this treads too closely to that line.
He’s pretty good at not going off of the pharma party line or running afoul of platform TOS. KDP must be pretty strict.
i understand he's probably doing good work in normalizing glp1's in general for a large normie audience but the few times i've read anything from him the way he's described "grey" has just rubbed me the wrong way from a pearl clutching perspective. i just don't see how someone can be THAT against grey options while simultaneously holding the opinion that all ranges of compounding pharmacies and medspas are safe lol.
and for that reason alone i'm happy about his amazon store related financial hardship.
and for that reason alone i'm happy about his amazon store related financial hardship.
KDP is super strict about a LOT of things. Lots of small indie authors get removed for stupid reasons. I don't know if they're still doing it, but they used to remove your book from KU if someone pirated it and put it up on pirating websites, because your work was no longer exclusive.
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He used to hold the view that all compounding was bad, then he partnered with Ro and his “mind changed” right quick. Perhaps if Tracy was willing to kick him back some commission, he’d change his tune about grey, too.
I always took it as him trying to maximize his audience as much as he can without upsetting the distribution platforms. Pretty sure being pro-UGL can get you demonitized, but being too anti-compound loses you a whole lot of eyeballs. But maybe I’m cynical.
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I haven't read the book so I can't say whether it's content is disappointing.
Yeah, I think even going with the party line might be enough. Especially since I doubt Amazon wants to invest a bunch of time figuring out what is and isn't the line from the pharma companies. Easier to just nuke anything from KDP that touches on it.
Though my understanding is you can basically backdoor yourself in on Amazon with other print on demand services like Lulu and they are far less stringent with content reviews for things through distribution networks/other publishers.
