Amazon's Catch 22
The email from Amazon/KDP telling me that they had terminated my account said:
We are terminating your account effective immediately because you have multiple accounts, which is a violation of our Terms and Conditions. Also, this account is related to an account that was terminated due to violations of our Content Guidelines.
As part of the termination process:
• We will close your account
• You're no longer eligible to receive any outstanding royalties
• You'll no longer have access to your accounts. This includes, editing your titles, viewing your reports and accessing any other information within your account
• All of your published titles will be removed from sale on Amazon
Additionally, as per our Terms and Conditions, you aren't allowed to open any new KDP accounts.
You can find our Terms and Conditions, here: https://kdp.amazon.com/terms-and-conditions
(bolding mine)
I cannot find the terms and conditions there. When I go to https://kdp.amazon.com/terms-and-conditions it says:
a link to all rules and policies for participating in the Program provided on the KDP website at http://kdp.amazon.com/ and http://kdp.amazon.co.jp/ ("Program Policies");
When I click on http://kdp.amazon.com/ it takes me to a page that wants me to sign in. When I click on the sign in button, it takes me to a page which says "This account has been closed" and contains no information on terms and conditions.
As best I can tell, KDP terminated my account with the claim that I had violated their terms and conditions and once my account is terminated I can no longer see what those terms and conditions are.
Which I think justifies the title of this post.