BUT in the last few weeks, unless you put the author name in the actual "author" line of the app, the service uses MY OWN name as author, and my name is listed in the author column in the cloud and on all devices. The sending service reads the author from the title line. You can leave the actual author line blank. If you select a book and right click to use Send to Kindle on PC, in the Title line the author shows after the title, separated by a hyphen: "Book ABC - John Doe". "Whether using the Send to Kindle app or email, the service does not seem to be reading the author info from the metadata. Where that ends up, who knows? Perhaps others have noticed this issue? The chat person said she would file a report to tech on my behalf. The detailed message below to Amazon via "chat". I don't know how clear the following is, but I sent So if you want an author name, you cannot presently use email! But you can't add an author name at all if sending a file to your Kindle via email. So you can effectively only upload one book/doc at a time.
Send to kindle software#
Whether using the "Send to Kindle" app or sending by email, the software doesn't retrieve the author name from the metadata as displayed in the filename and so the "author" shown in Kindle will only be your own name or your email address, not the book's real author! You can, of course, manually type in an author name in the "Send to Kindle" app (on computer or mobile device) for just a single book (but not for multiple/batch uploads).
I checked myself and can confirm that everything is working as it should for me also.
Several people reported the "fix" late in December.
As of about 3 months later this issue described below has been fixed.
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