Authors locked out of KDP after Amazon blocks GrokBot

The Novel Marketing podcast reported that Amazon’s robots.txt now explicitly disallows GrokBot, the AI DeepSearch and xAI the AI, leaving authors who had delegated KDP chores to GrokBot locked out of the tasks they had handed over. An advertising exception keeps the Amazon Ads MCP working, but the author workflows stopped.

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How it works

Authors delegate KDP chores to GrokBot
Amazon disallows GrokBot in robots.txt
Bot access to KDP stops
Authors locked out of the delegated workflows

Why it’s worth knowing

A whole group of working authors lost their delegated workflows to one line in a robots.txt file.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on youtube.com. See the original ↗

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