That...had to be super frustrating! Still it was fun to read it, lol! (I'm sorry)
I knew amazon does paperback publishing too but didn't know anyone who've done it or showed any demonstration. Thanks for this. Also I'mp pretty darn sure they don't ship them to my country. We usually have to rely upon third party companies. We give them the amazon link, they buy the item and ship it to us for a small fee. In this lock-down even they aren't available.
Do you have the same sort of services? Might not be too bad as future alternatives.
It's okay, haha! I laugh at it now too.
We might have a similar service -- I'll have to have a look! -- if we do have a service like that, it'll be good to know for my future books. The series I'm working on means so much to me that I'd even be willing to fork out the excessive fees for the local printer, lol!