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My Book "AI, Ego & Regret" Paperback Is Live. Kindle Is Blocked.

xulingfeng on August 28, 2026

Last post, I said "the book is under review." Now the paperback is live. The Kindle edition is blocked. (Haha, they finally approved the ebook to...
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Yessss! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ Paperback is LIVE! And at such an affordable price too ๐Ÿ˜ Seriously, this is awesome! Now Amazon better unblock that Kindle version ASAP Huge congratulations! ๐ŸŽ‰โ˜บ๏ธ

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๐Ÿคฃๅ•Š๏ผŒๆ„Ÿ่ง‰ไบไบ†๏ผŒๅฎšไปทๅฎšๅคชไฝŽไบ†๏ผŒๅ“ˆๅ“ˆๅ“ˆ
๐Ÿคฃ Feels like I priced it too low honestly, haha

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๐Ÿค” How many days can we stay in China with this much money?

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Hard to tell. After tax and withdrawal fees, excluding rent, just for daily meals โ€“ maybe a day or two.๐Ÿ˜‚

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With this amount of money, I can manage for 5 days with food and drinks, while others in India probably manage for only 1โ€“2 days.

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Life's expenses never stop โ€“ food, bills, everything. Keep working hard, get that promotion, and make that year-end bonus count!๐Ÿ‘

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I think a flex you're underselling, is you're in China, published on Amazon! That's actually a feat all it's own, because of all the regulatory hurdles. Super proud! You did what 99.99% of all humans throughout history have never done (and that's the simple part, writing a book), at another decimal for publishing, add another decimal for worldwide, add another decimal for from China, on Amazon. That's incredible!

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Haha, they finally approved the ebook too! 48 hours and it's live!

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Add another decimal. You're walking the trail less traveled and you should be proud. Less than a handful of people have ever done that in the history of mankind...

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Haha, I'm cracking up! Are we really allowed to hype each other up this much? ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

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Training you mean... Gotta level up your +50% TPS AoE somehow? ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Huge congratulations on the paperback, Xu! After following the journey from the dev.to stories to an actual book, itโ€™s really nice to see it live. Hope the Kindle issue gets sorted soon too ๐Ÿคž

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Thanks a lot! And happy birthday again! About the Kindle version... not looking great. They replied again with a standard 'keep as is' line. I'm wondering what else to try โ€“ maybe other channels?๐Ÿ˜‚

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Thank you so much for the birthday wishes, Xu! I hope you find another way around it! Fingers crossed something works out soon.

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xulingfeng

Haha, they finally approved the ebook too! 48 hours and it's live!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Yayy, so glad it finally got approved! Congrats ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜†
Hello

Congratulations! The following book(s) you recently submitted have been reviewed and were successfully passed:

AI, Ego & Regret: 15 True Failure Modes from the AI Era
Lingfeng, Xu

The book(s) will soon be published on Amazon. Please allow up to 48 hours for the book(s) to become available in the Amazon Store.

Thanks for using Amazon KDP

Elavarasan
Amazon Content Review Team

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Good news! Amazon's email about my Kindle edition being blocked finally arrived right after I published this post. I'm continuing to communicate with them by email and hope we can get the Kindle issue sorted out soon.

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xulingfeng

So I just got another email from Amazon: 'After further review, we've decided to uphold our previous decision and will not be publishing your title(s) at this time because the content might result in a disappointing customer experience.'
I guess my series really can't make it as ebooks on Amazon โ€“ so strange, because the paperback is fine. The thing is, their reply is so vague, no concrete reason. Should I try other platforms? Anyone been through this and can offer some tips?๐Ÿ˜‡

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leob

Nice:

"... your comments from the old series made it into the book's front pages ..."

Added your paperback to my Amazon "wish list" - think I'm gonna buy it, and when I do I'll leave a review!

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@leob eob, seriously thank you so much. Without your comment back then, I'm not sure I would have made it this far.๐Ÿ˜ญ

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Small things big consequences, something like that :P