: Re: Anonymous publishing I am writing a book of short stories. I am planning to self-publish the stories as an e-book but would like to keep my anonymity - I will use a pseudonym. Obviously, I

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The problem comes from the IRS's need to collect income tax from your book sales, and from the government's need to prevent crooks from laundering dirty money (and avoiding taxes). As a result, Amazon (and most companies) are going to insist on your Social Security number so they can report your earnings to the IRS. So, although you can put a pseudonym on the book, so readers don't know who you are, ultimately the information is out there. If nothing else, the IRS will know that you're earning money by selling books on Amazon (or wherever). And if they want to dig deeper, I'm sure Amazon would give them a list of the titles they're paying you for. But unless what you're writing is illegal (e,g. kiddie porn), odds are they won't bother to dig. And from a practical standpoint, unless you have a detective investigating you, odds are your identity would be relatively safe. But the fact that the info does exist (at both the IRS and in Amazon records) means you can never truly be 100% certain that you won't be "outed".

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