Amazon eBooks about corona virus are flooding the market—and they’re entirely unvetted

    

The Wuhan Coronavirus: Survival Manual and Concise Guide to COVID-19 (Symptoms, Outbreak, and Prevention in 2020)

  The most comprehensive book about COVID-19 is now available. It contains 150 pages created from more than 400 hours of research. (Updated on March 14, 2020)

The coronavirus outbreak has been a topic of frequent contention since it began in December of 2019. The virus, also referred to as the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, is not the first coronavirus we have seen; the virus that caused severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was also a type of coronavirus, as was Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).

Learn everything you need to know about the virus that originated in Wuhan, China including an introduction to virology, the risk factors, how you can protect yourself, the truth behind some of the most prevalent rumors, a detailed timeline for the outbreak, what medical studies and experts have told us, and much more.

This book is suitable for any individuals, educators, business owners, families, healthcare professionals, and anyone else who needs to develop a better understanding of how to protect the general public from COVID-19.

Virus: The China Ruby: Chinese Coronavirus Pandemic Hits The USA 

      At this point, it’s simply impossible to know how many coronavirus ebooks are on Amazon. And they’re incredibly easy to publish. 

      Amazon promises that Kindle books can be published in “less than 5 minutes” with books appearing in Kindle stores within a day or two.

     There’s no gatekeeping, no vetting of the content, and the site promises a robust royalty rate—incentivizing creators to keep pumping out books in the hope that one hits. There’s no telling how much money has been made off these books, and neither Amazon or any ebook writers that Daily Dot contacted responded to requests for comment.

      But someone is clearly profiting off these books, selling either cut and pasted publicly available information or nonsense on a rapidly moving pandemic. 

      With conflicting information coming from American authorities, and a population inching closer to panic, these books provide at least a voice out of the darkness—but it’s one you shouldn’t trust a word of publication. 

Wuhan 2019: A Novel on Dangerous Games in China

When 10,000 athletes from 109 nations converge on the city of Wuhan, no one realizes the danger. Terrorists see the Olympic-styled games as an opportunity to strike. The struggle to stop them goes from 2,000-year-old Yellow Crane Tower to the pangolin pens of Huanan wet market.

Wuhan 2019 also explores the culture of one of China's fastest-growing cities, its long history and its scenic beauty. Dialogue is sprinkled with the witticisms of Confucius and the good nature of the Chinese people, but contrasted by their government's overbearing surveillance and internet censorship. The journey takes readers from bat caves in southern China to the emperor's summer palace in Manchuria, along the docks of Canton, into the gambling casinos of Macau, to the crowded pens of a Wuhan marketplace.