? About Amazon Publishing - my dad wrote a book [View all]

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 PhD’s (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. I’ve 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 it’s been half an hour..

I am wondering if any of you know if this COULD be a legit Amazon thing? I’m sure some on here have published on Amazon.

Thanks in advance