MONOPOLIES ARE NOT GOOD FOR READERS, NOR FOR AUTHORS!
“The Authors Guild, the American Booksellers Association and Authors United have sent letters and statements to the Justice Department calling for an investigation into Amazon.”
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BookScan vs. NovelRank vs. Others – Where Can I Find Real-time Sales Data For My Book?! By Angela Hoy
An author recently sent in the following when asking about his book sales…
New and Used Copies of Books on Amazon
Someone recently brought to my attention that on Amazon, there is a listing for people to buy a “new” or “used” copy of a book (that’s from a P.O.D. source) for a reduced fee or sometimes an extraordinarily high fee. Do you know where these books come from or where I can learn more about this?
AMAZON’S SWEAT SHOPS – Why Can’t Jeff Bezos Spend Some of His Billions on Air Conditioning for His Warehouse Employees?! By Angela Hoy
Jeff Bezos is a BILLIONAIRE!! He is worth 18.4 BILLION dollars. Instead of putting air conditioning in the ovens his company calls warehouses, he’s blowing his money trying to recover rockets from past space flights. Why?!
POD SECRETS REVEALED: “Free” POD Services Can Be Very Expensive!
Tempted to sign up with one of those POD publishers that are claiming to be FREE? Think again! If you’re a graphic designer and you can layout your book on your own, and if you can create a professional and original book cover on your own, too, and if you want to severely limit your book’s availability (and salability), that’s one thing. But, if you want to get your book published for “free”, in some cases you can forget about having an ISBN (which online and brick and mortar bookstores and libraries require), forget about being distributed by Ingram, the largest book distributor, and forget about a lot of other things as well…
Author Admits Manipulating Amazon’s Ranking/Review System
It never ceases to amaze me how excited or infuriated authors get about their Amazon ranking…
Does Amazon Remove Old Book Listings? No!
When an author publishes a brand new edition of their book, or when they move their book from one publisher to another, or even when they get the rights back to their book and decide to self-publish, they are often frustrated to learn that Amazon will not remove the old version of their book from Amazon.com…
Book Reviewing Authors Furious With Amazon – But I’m Not By Angela Hoy
Amazon recently announced they would be removing other book names and links from book reviews. Some so-called book reviewers are furious about it…because they were accustomed to using Amazon’s book reviews option to promote themselves. While I’m no fan of Amazon, for once, they’re doing something I agree with!
It’s Getting HOT IN HERE! Amazon Under Fire in the U.S. and Abroad
Since WritersWeekly broke the Amazon Ultimatum Story two weeks ago, news has traveled quickly across the globe and it didn’t take long for everyone, including book buyers, authors, publishers, and writing organizations, to weigh in against Amazon’s actions…