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Related: About this forum? About Amazon Publishing - my dad wrote a book
He published it with Amazon a couple months ago. This is his first book in 45 or so years. He is 85 and has 3 Physics/math PhDs (seriously). The book is short but very hard to read. The book concerns logic and intuition and has cartoon drawings in it a friend drew.
The people he is working with at Amazon* told him they want to turn the book into a Netflix film. Yes, Netflix not Prime. They talked him into it. And he sent them 10k on his credit card - they accidently tried to take out 20k. They sent him a cookie-cutter script for this movie.
I found this out yesterday - he is certain it is legit
I have no such certainty. He is, as I said, 85 and absolutely sure of himself although there have certainly been signs of dementia creeping in.
When I expressed my concerns he became defensive and angry. He will not allow me to see the correspondence.
Trying to reach a knowledgeable human being at Amazon has been a joke. Ive been on the phone for almost 2 hrs. The last person was supposed to send a link I could use to contact someone that could do something or check for legitimacy
but the link has not arrived and its been half an hour..
I am wondering if any of you know if this COULD be a legit Amazon thing? Im sure some on here have published on Amazon.
Thanks in advance
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Dear_Prudence
(637 posts)I am so sorry. My mother was taken in when she was elderly. Some "kind" men offered to "fix that leak" at a gas station and they followed her to the ATM so she could pay in cash. I don't know how much she lost, but at least she was unhurt.
Dear_Prudence
(637 posts)Here is an article on the scam
https://indiesunlimited.com/2020/01/13/the-make-my-book-into-a-movie-scam/
FBI issued an alert
https://authorsguild.org/resource/publishing-scam-alerts/
alittlelark
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U are my hero !!!
Dear_Prudence
(637 posts)mainer
(12,122 posts)Amazon pays for film rights. They dont charge YOU.
(Speaking as someone who has a TV series now in development at Amazon Studios.)
mikelewis
(4,141 posts)I wrote a book and published it on Amazon and had all sorts of harassment calls after that... but it was still free publishing just with an annoyance fee.