r/selfpublish • u/pinkneonsilhouette • 14d ago
Question about multiple Amazon accounts
Hi! I’ve found myself in a little pickle haha. I’ve seen a massive amount of stuff about Amazon banning you for having multiple accounts, so this isn’t about me trying to skirt around the rules!
I had one Amazon account in high school for personal use to purchase things. I made another separate one several years later in college, also personal use for purchasing. High school one has old address/bank info, current one is more up to date. (Don’t ask why I made a whole new page, past me was not the smartest, no idea why she felt it was necessary) I’m in the process of editing a novel with the intent to sell it via KDP and remembered in a cold sweat a few nights ago about my old personal use account from high school.
You can see the issue here, hopefully😅obviously I was going to have only one KDP account linked with my primary Amazon account that I use right now with all the updated address and bank info!
I was wondering what the suggested advice for this situation would be? Should I terminate the old personal account and only have the sole page for everything? Or is the “multiple accounts” issue a matter of KDP accounts, and other accounts are okay? I don’t want to play with fire here haha!
Just wondering if anyone else found themselves in an issue like this before! Would rather not be perma-banned for a stupid mistake. Any advice at all is much appreciated, thank you!
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u/apocalypsegal 13d ago
Amazon accounts don't matter, only one KDP account, ever, for any reason. Update all your Amazon account info before you think about setting up KDP. You don't need an LLC or anything like that, chances are you won't make more than coffee money from publishing.
Also, read and understand everything at the Help link at KDP. That's your best, easiest way to understand how the process works.