Joanna Penn's latest thoughts on being Amazon exclusive

Posted on 12/19/2018 at 09:57 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

When Joanna Penn and her latest podcast guest met, years ago, the most dramatic divide between authors seemed to be indi...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, Joanna Penn, The business of writing

What authors can learn from Sears

Posted on 11/29/2018 at 05:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Sears wasn’t the first once huge company watch its fortunes turn dramatically. And it won’t be the last. Kri...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, The business of writing

The Kindlepreneur's Amazon-ad strategy

Posted on 11/23/2018 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If you’re thinking of using Amazon ads to lure holiday shoppers to your books, you may want to listen to Dave Ches...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Marketing

Amazon is testing sales-tracking tool called KDP Reports

Posted on 11/15/2018 at 11:02 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Amazon is testing a new sales-data tracking tool, according to The Digital Reader (citing reports on KBoards and Faceboo...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Kindle Direct Publishing, The Digital Reader

Amazon's statement on disappearing ebooks

Posted on 11/13/2018 at 01:16 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Amazon has posted an acknowledgment of the disappearing Kindle Direct Publishing books issue: We're experiencing an...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Kindle Direct Publishing, Technology

Ebooks are still disappearing from Amazon, especially overseas

Posted on 11/12/2018 at 10:27 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

David Gaughran has more bad news to add to our original post about ebooks disappearing from Amazon: Most Kindle Direct P...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Technology, The Digital Reader

David Gaughran explains Amazon's Also-Boughts

Posted on 11/05/2018 at 10:13 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If you’ve been wondering what the heck is going on with the Amazon “also-bought” recommendations, you&...

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Tagged As: Amazon, David Gaughran, Marketing

Understanding your Amazon URL

Posted on 11/02/2018 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Dave Chesson, the Kindlepreneur, has an anatomy lesson for authors. Fortunately for the squeamish, it doesn’t invo...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Marketing, Podcast, Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur)

Ebooks are mysteriously vanishing from Kindle store

Posted on 10/29/2018 at 08:41 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

There’s a nasty bug going around, and it’s not the kind that vaccines or vitamin C can prevent. Authors are...

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Tagged As: Amazon, The Digital Reader

A refresher on Amazon review requirements

Posted on 10/15/2018 at 09:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

No matter how up-to-date you think you are on Amazon’s review requirements, it never hurts to have a guide at...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Reader reviews, The Book Designer