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- October 2026Seven Days on KDP: 370 Page Reads, Zero Sales, and a 24-Hour Window
Two AI-drafted novels went live on October 17. One week later the dashboard shows 370 Kindle page reads and no sales — and every one of those pages was read on a single day. The split is the interesting part: 351 pages belong to book one, which means at least two readers finished it, and 19 belong to book two, which means one reader opened it and stopped. Here is what a 24-hour exposure window looks like, and what it does and does not prove.
- October 2026AdSense rejected us twice in ten days. We publish both emails.
First rejection on Oct 12: an old personal signup made our company account a duplicate. Fixed that evening at 20:21. Second rejection on Oct 21: thin content, nine days of review. Dates, screenshots, what we change before reapplying, and an update log.
- October 2026We Published Two AI-Written Novels on Amazon. Here Is Every Rule That Actually Matters.
Two full-length novels went through Kindle Direct Publishing last week, drafted by an AI coding agent and packaged by a script. The AI disclosure is not the trap everyone warns you about. The traps are the title collision you only find after you submit, and the table of contents your generator forgot to build.
- October 2026We Fixed Our D-U-N-S Record From China. The Form Hides a Button You Should Not Click.
Every Chinese solo developer hits this wall eventually: Apple and Google Play want a D-U-N-S number for your company, and the official channels are scattered between two providers and one email address that bounces. Here is the path we actually took, with dates.
- October 2026I Pulled the Median Earnings From Five Platforms Where Solo Builders Sell Their Work
KDP, the App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store and Google AdSense, compared by what the middle of the distribution actually earns. Every number carries a named source.