I have five poetry books available in several places, including www.amazon.com. Two of these books still have the same dumb problem I’ve reported to Amazon several times over several months.

They show more than half the book on a ‘look inside.’

My other three books show only a few pages of text, but enough for you, a potential reader, to get a feel for the work and this author’s voice.

I reported this to Amazon last July and was told again in October that it would be fixed. It’s pretty easy to see the problem. Simply go to my author page and select each book in turn, and ‘look inside.’ It’s pretty obvious that three books show a few pages, and that two show more than 40 pages.

That’s my first complaint with Amazon. They give away too much of two of my books. And they can’t fix it, despite repeated promises and apologies.

My second complaint concerns disappearing reviews. One of my earliest positive reviews was by one Shell Tidings and it has disappeared.

I do Kindle Book Reviews for other writers under my own ID but as a Kindle Book Review Team member. I follow all the rules. I keep all the files. I have every eMail ever involved. I am, I think, the only person currently doing poetry. I take all genres, although the KBR team page only mentions poetry. Somehow word gets around. I am tough but thorough.

Several of my book reviews have been re-requested because the author involved found out it (the review) had disappeared. Of course I simply re-posted it from my files.

Recently I received an eMail from Amazon requesting me to review two specific books. Since I keep records, I checked and confirmed that I had indeed previously seen both works. I had reviewed one, and had suggested to the author of the other that some changes should be made. I don’t give a poor review when I think an author can easily fix a work and get better marketing help from what I might decide to write.

So, I checked and found the following: My review of the one work had for sure disappeared, and it wasn’t that long ago – October 5. As for the other one, I had checked its reviews and noted one that was a bit harsh. You will recall I chose not to review this particular version of this particular work. Well, that rough review is missing also.

That’s my second complaint with Amazon. They lose Kindle Book reviews. It seems to be random.