The first issue of the Rage Compilation Series contained Rage #1 and Rage #2. This series was available exclusively in print at Amazon, and digitally on Kindle. Since it was an Amazon exclusive, I had also put it on KDP Select, so that Kindle subscribers could read it for free.
The reason I created this new Rage Compilation series was purely technical. The printed versions of Rage were created using Amazon Kindle’s Print-on-demand service. Print-on-demand is a great solution for paperbacks with many pages. The Rage Bane of Demons Graphic Novel is 60+page, so its price isn’t low, but still OK. The first issue of the Rage Series is 30+page, its price was higher proportionally, but I managed to sell its printed version at conventions, so I suppose it was still OK. The problem of Rage #2 is that it’s a 20+page comic. I tried to keep the number of pages to the minimum allowed by Kindle, and the price was so high proportionally, that I could only put it on sale in Amazon Europe Stores.
The price of Rage #1 and #2 having been lowered as much as possible, the margin on these books is also very low. To actually make a profit on books when I go to conventions, each book has to have a number of pages of at least 60, so, the only solution was to compile these two issues to make it a 60+ page book.
The good news was that you had a brand-new Rage cover by Carlos Paul, and that it was the only Rage book available to Kindle subscribers. And if you didn’t own Rage #1 and #2 yet, it would be cheaper to buy this compilation on Kindle!
Then one day, Amazon decided to terminate my KDP Publisher Account.
After having been published on Amazon Createspace, and then Amazon Kindle for mostly fifteen years, all my books have been deleted in January 2026, and I’ve been banned from creating a new account, for activities on my account attempting to manipulate Kindle services, violation of policies relative to my account, and violation of their Terms and Conditions.
When I asked for explanations, KDP Tech Support answered that according to Kindle’s policy, they reserve the right to not divulge information they consider as sensible data.
This means that all my books have been censored by Amazon without any detailed explanation.
After investigating, I noticed that this type of account deletion happened to many auto-publishers before me. A few got their accounts back after many appeals, others didn’t. Some of them called the services of lawyers who specialize in account deletion (it seems there are a few, because there’s money to be made obviously), and spent an amount of money I deem too high to retrieve their accounts (and I’m not even sure that it’s a final amount). Others finally called the services of an aggregator, some of whom would also handle all of their other accounts. For me it’s too many eggs in the same basket, and it contributes to make independent publishers more and more… dependents. And even with the obvious financial loss, I’m still attached to my independence (even if it’s relative, since I obviously depend on the mood changes and bugs of Tech Support Agents for my different accounts).
So I’m handling the appeals myself, and don’t expect to have my account back anytime soon.
So this means… No more Rage Compilation Series. I’m currently planning to print a Trade Paperback of the first six issues of the Rage Series instead. I’ll keep you posted.